Daqin Engineering Corps

It's no wonder that winter is usually a truce period... Winter is not only covered with ice and snow, it is more difficult to attack the city. If the weather is colder, several people in the army will freeze to death if they sleep in the wild.

But Shen Bing didn't need to worry about this problem.

Just as Shen Bing loaded his wheat stalks into the carriage, Meng Liang came up to him.

"The stingy man is polite, these are two quilts that my father brought to his subordinates, I hope the stingy man will accept them with a smile."

As he spoke, he waved to the guard next to him, and stuffed two quilts into Shen Bing's carriage without any explanation.

After thanking Meng Liang, Shen Bing got into the car and touched...

I go, the soft one is obviously stuffed with wool.

This is a good thing!And there are only two beds.

Of course Shen Bing would not refuse.

Just kidding, he doesn't want to be frozen to death, and he will rely on it to survive the winter.

126章 水网

The course of the Yellow River in the Qin Dynasty was slightly different from the modern course.

Starting from Xingyang in the north of Daliang, it goes north through Anyang, Handan, Shanggu (now Baoding) and enters the Bohai Sea from Jingu (now Tianjin).

Therefore, if the Qin army wants to attack Handan, it only needs to go south along the Yellow River.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Qiuming once sighed: "When the river is clean, how long is life?"

It means that life is short, and it is impossible to wait for the Yellow River to become clear.

Although the high sediment content of the Yellow River is a bad thing, it can also be said to be a good thing.

There are too many bad things to say.

The flooding and diversion caused by the high sand concentration and a series of disasters caused by it are innumerable.

The good thing is that the North China Plain and the Huanghuai River Plain are actually formed by the continuous accumulation and diversion of sand and soil brought by the Yellow River.

If the Yellow River were clear, Qi would not even exist at this time, and large areas of Wei, Zhao and other countries should be covered with vast oceans.

Sitting in the carriage, Shen Bing looked at the Yellow River flowing northward on the east side and sighed secretly. It is no wonder that Chinese people call it the mother river.

This is not only because the countries in the Central Plains used more water from the Yellow River for irrigation, but also because it had a huge impact on the thinking, living habits and even culture of the people in the Central Plains.

Because the Yellow River will divert and flood, the people must take advantage of the good times to work hard, and store as much as possible when harvesting to deal with possible crises in the future.

Thousands of years later, this sense of crisis and habit has penetrated into the blood and bone marrow of the Chinese nation.

Make most people agree that "people have short-term worries without long-term worries" and develop the living habits of hard work and storage.

In contrast, northern nomadic peoples and western commercial peoples generally do not have these habits and concepts.

only……

This Yellow River is not that Yellow River.

Shen Bing didn't know when he would be able to return to the familiar Yellow River in modern times, and his family members were waiting for him to go back.

Just when Shen Bing was sad, a soldier rode his horse to the carriage and reported:

"Coward, two or five hundred masters order you to cut wood and build bridges on the spot."

Shen Bing asked casually:

"How is the enemy situation ahead?"

It's no wonder that Shen Bing asked this question. The Qin army has been going south for more than three days. Except for a small number of Wei troops in the border area, they almost drove straight in without any resistance.

The soldier replied:

"I only encountered a few small groups of enemy troops, and it's not a big deal."

"But the wooden bridge was set on fire by the Wei army!"

Shen Bing let out an "oh", got out of the car and ordered the troops to cut wood and build a bridge, while he brought a few personal guards to check the situation.

It's just a small river with a width of more than ten steps, and it's almost enough to build three or five rafts, so Shen Bing didn't take it to heart.

However, things were not so simple. Not long after the pontoon bridge was built to cross the river, another ditch several steps wide lay in front of them, and the engineers had to stop again to build the bridge.

Only then did Shen Bing truly understand the meaning of "dense network of water".

The farmland in this area is full of ditches for irrigation. Although they are not wide, they are densely covered like spider webs.

On the other hand, more farmland means fewer trees, so logging to build bridges often involves hauling timber from miles away.

If it weren't for the help of Meng Liang and his hundreds of soldiers, this would not have been easy.have

But even so, this will still not affect the marching speed of the army.

The marching sequence of the Qin army in combat is usually like this:

At the forefront are the spies.

The spies usually ride fast horses in units of five or even to inquire around.

Their purpose is to find out where there are enemies and where there are obstacles.

A detachment of cavalry followed.

This cavalry has about [-] troops, which can be said to be Qin Shi's quick response force.

As soon as the spies detected the enemy's situation and gave a signal, they rushed to reinforce.

If the enemy is a small group of harassing troops, the cavalry will solve it.

If the enemy is a large army or a small-scale city, wait for the infantry reinforcements from the rear.

After the cavalry came the sappers and a thousand men.

Needless to say, it was the troops of Shen Bing and Zhang Xuan.

They advance faster with light clothes, and when they encounter rivers and bridges ahead, they see mountains and open roads.

In the end is the main force of the Qin army.

The main force is slow because of the large number of troops and the large amount of supplies accompanying the army.

Shen Bing and others took advantage of this speed difference to build bridges.

However, after another two days like this, Wei Jun still did not see the battle, and at the same time, several pontoon bridges were built in the rear, Shen Bing felt a little nervous.

After thinking about it, Shen Bing stopped Meng Liang who was walking outside the carriage:

"Zuo Yufu, do you still have your map?"

Meng Liang was stunned for a moment, and asked back:

"Map, what map?"

Then he slapped his head suddenly and remembered:

"Here, the map... the map of Wei State!"

"Forgive me, miser, my subordinate forgot where to put it."

"Let me look for it!"

As he said that, he got into the carriage and rummaged through it. It took a long time before he came out with a bag of dried meat, and said excitedly:

"Let the subordinates find it!"

Shen Bing saw that the sheepskin map was used by this guy to wrap jerky.

This is so...

Shen Bing didn't know what to say.

Not long ago, you said that you should work hard to improve governance, didn't you?

He still took the map and asked Shen Bing how to attack Wei, didn't he?

In the end, when we finally arrived in the Kingdom of Wei...

Use such a precious map to wrap jerky?

Meng Liang didn't notice the change in Shen Bing's expression, he spread out the map and handed the jerky to Shen Bing, saying:

"Coward, how about a few dollars?"

"Although it's not as delicious as the scallion pancake, this one from the wilderness can satisfy your craving for a while!"

Shen Bing: ...

But at this time, Shen Bing had no time to argue with Meng Liang, he grabbed the jerky into Meng Liang's arms, spread the wrinkled map on the carriage and flattened it.

The map is still not detailed enough, and many ditches and rivers are not marked.

But that doesn't seem surprising.

Because many rivers and canals may have been opened after the map was made, and some may have been dug by the people themselves, and there is not even a map of Wei State.

Looking at the map, Shen Bing frowned, the battle seemed not as simple as he thought before.

Thinking of Shen Bing, he confessed to Meng Liang:

"Stay here and watch the troops, I'll talk to the general about something!"

Meng Liang responded, but when Shen Bing boarded the carriage, he asked from behind:

"Scooper, are you sure you don't bring some jerky?"

Shen Bing suddenly had a feeling of inhumanity...

The carriage went all the way back to find Yang Duanhe who was looking at the map, and immediately stepped forward to report.

"General, this subordinate thinks there is a fraud in this battle."

Yang Duanhe raised his head:

"Oh, let's hear it!"

Shen Bing pointed to the map and said:

"Look, general, we're going downstream along the Yellow River in the opposite direction."

"And the Wei army went downstream along the Yellow River."

"The Wei army avoided fighting this way, I'm afraid it is luring the enemy to lure our army to Daliang City."

"Then send the water army down the river to attack the rear of our army."

Yang Duanhe said with a smile:

"Although what the miser said is reasonable."

"However, the state of Wei does not have such talents as cowards. They don't know how to use troops like this."

"The miser can move forward with confidence!"

127章 魏獒

The reason why Yang Duanhe said this was because the Qin State had already bribed many of the ministers of the Wei State to know the details of the Wei State, so they knew that this was not Wei State's strategy to lure the enemy into deeper.

Yang Duanhe was right, Wei Guo didn't have any decent talents.

It should be said that there are talents, but Wei Wangjia doesn't know how to employ people.

When the Qin army went south, the prime minister Shi Cheng and the general Wei Wei (xǔ) who got the news hurried to the mastiff palace to meet the king of Wei, but they were stopped by the guards.

The guards leaned their halberds to the middle and crossed them to block the palace entrance:

"Prime Minister, General!"

"Your Majesty is having a mastiff in the palace, no one else is allowed to enter!"

Wei Xi took a step forward and put his hand on the handle of the sword and said angrily:

"Am I waiting for idlers?"