Daqin Engineering Corps

"You, you... pull it down and cut it!"

The guard was stunned for a moment, and was about to step forward, but Shi Cheng waved his hands, laughed and walked down by himself.

The hateful thing is that Wei Wang pretended to think that Shicheng was right, so what if he chopped down Shicheng?Can the danger of flooding the girders be solved and the Qin army retreated?

After thinking about it, Wei Wangjia finally made the right decision at this time.

He pretended to be calm and said:

"Don't worry, my lords, the Chu army has sent troops from land and water to help, and they will rush to Daliang soon."

"After the Qin army retreats, the widows will reward each other for their merits!"

King Wei guessed right on this point, Chu State did indeed come to help.

It's just that they couldn't enter the city because Daliang was surrounded by water...

In fact, it was Xiang Yan who was not interested in spreading the news to the city, because even King Wei's fake virtue would not be of much use.

However, even this is of no avail, and no one can save Daliang.

On the other side, Shen Bing watched the river with a group of craftsmen at the embankment.

This Zheng Guo is indeed worthy of being a water engineer, every water line is exactly as he calculated without any mistakes.

The river rose higher and higher at the embankment, higher and higher... soon it overflowed the moat and flooded to the foot of the city wall.

The river does not need to be too high, just a few steps over the city wall.

Even if the mud-rammed city wall is more than ten steps thick, it cannot withstand the scour and immersion of this water potential. In a few days, its city foundation will collapse and cause a chain reaction.

Shen Bing was not worried about this, he just wanted to yell at Daliang City:

"The flood is coming, you have to move the grain to a higher place to protect it!"

However, this seems to be an extravagant hope. When everyone is at a loss what to do, how can they bother with food?

Things really happened as Shen Bing thought.

Because the flood flooded over the city wall for a few steps, the river water seeped into the ground and quickly formed a "fountain effect"...

All the well water overflowed the well mouth, and the inland river gradually overflowed the embankment and poured into the streets and houses, and then the houses and the accumulated water swelled higher and higher, and soon the streets where people used to leave could be used for boating.

Since the houses were mostly built of rammed earth and the walls were relatively thin, the houses collapsed one after another before the city walls fell, and the Daliang City immediately became chaotic, with the cries of soldiers and civilians everywhere.

King Wei could last a little longer because he was in a higher royal city.

But the stagnant water slowly entered the house regardless of whether it was the palace or not.

It's a pity that at the end of the day, Wei Wang pretended to order his personal guards to rescue the mastiff in the mastiff palace.

In the end, the ministers couldn't hold it anymore, and they all knelt down and worshiped:

"Your Majesty, let me surrender!"

"Your Majesty, before the Chu army comes to help, Daliang City may already be gone."

……

In fact, King Wei wanted to surrender more than anyone else, but he was worried that he would not be able to save his life if he surrendered, so he kept hesitating.

But when things got to this point, he couldn't help but not surrender.

142章 降兵

Wei Wang's leave finally surrendered.

At the moment Wei Wang falsely announced his surrender, Yang Duanhe ordered Zheng Guo to seal the mouth of the river.

The king of Wei came here in a small boat, and there were also a group of civil and military officials. It took dozens of small boats to load them in groups of three and five.

It was a bit ridiculous that the boats rowed out from the city gate.

But Yang Duanhe didn't smile at this time, he waved his hand before the king of Wei said something false... Qin Jun behind him rushed into the city with a raft.

These Qin soldiers were also surprised that they went straight to the granary instead of taking prisoners or going to the palace to grab property when they entered the city.

As for the reason, it goes without saying... Food is the most important thing at this time.

How much food can be rescued is as much food. Even if Wei Jun doesn't need to eat, the 10 people in Qin Jun don't want to starve to death.

Almost at the same time, a spy came to Yang Duanhe and whispered in his ear:

"General, the Chu army has occupied Heyang (now Mengzhou)."

Yang Duanhe nodded slightly to express his understanding.

Heyang is just west of Daliang, and the Chu army's occupation of Heyang means that the encirclement has been closed, which means that the Qin army has no way to retreat.

At this time, the king of Wei climbed up the embankment tremblingly with all his courtiers, lined up and knelt down in front of Yang Duanhe.

Yang Duanhe glanced at King Wei who was kneeling at the front, and said with a smile:

"Perhaps the King of Wei doesn't know that the Chu army has surrounded Daliang?"

"You seem to have surrendered a little too early!"

King Wei couldn't help being stunned, then immediately bowed his head and said:

"Not early, not early."

"Even if I know, the widow has also made a decision to surrender to Qin."

Just kidding, if you regret it at this time, wouldn't it be a sword cut?

But this is indeed Yang Duanhe's false joke with King Wei, because even if the Chu army is here now, I am afraid that Daliang City will still be in danger.

Yang Duanhe just wanted to see what King Wei looked like after he knew the news.

But seeing that the king of Wei pretended to be like this and had little interest, he just raised his head towards the guards and asked them to take the king of Wei into custody.

Shen Bing and a group of craftsmen followed the soldiers into the city on a raft.

After entering the city, what I saw was desolation, corpses floating on the water everywhere, both human and livestock, and both sides of the street were full of collapsed ruins or crooked and crumbling houses.

Occasionally, a few pairs of terrified eyes projected from inside, wanting to ask for help but not daring to call out.

Shen Bing looked at all this and didn't know what it was like.

Although he knows that these are unavoidable, it is impossible for war not to hurt innocent people.

Even sometimes hurting the innocent is to avoid hurting more innocents in the future.

But when he really stood here, seeing the miserable conditions of these people and knowing that all of this was caused by him, he still couldn't help but feel guilty.

Not long after, the raft of Shen Bing and his party arrived at the granary.

It should be said that it is relatively lucky. The Yellow River often floods in Daliang, so the granary is prepared for waterproofing:

First, it is built on a high place, and second, it is stilted with logs below.

Therefore, only the lower layer of the grain accumulated in it is soaked in water.

Zhang Xuan who came to inspect first said to Shen Bing:

"The miser came at the right time. At this time, there is water everywhere, even if we grab food, there is no way to grab it."

"We can only wait for the river to recede."

"The miser first widens the barn door."

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The purpose of widening the warehouse door is to facilitate handling at that time.

But in fact, there is no need to widen at all, just open a few more doors in other directions.

The water came and went quickly, but the street slowly revealed itself after an hour, but the street was full of mud.

But Qin Jun didn't care about this much, so he immediately carried the bags of grain in the granary that had not been soaked in water to the palace... Only the palace is the tallest in the whole city, and the dry houses are the most. It is best for storing grain. up.

These are not problems, even the soaked grains can be solved: the soaked grains that are hard to preserve can be eaten first, or find a way to dry them.

Moreover, there are endless granaries one after another. It is an exaggeration to say that the granaries can be kept for a few years, but it is enough to feed the entire city's soldiers and civilians for a few months.

The problem lies in the teams of Wei soldiers who came to surrender in the city...

This might even be a good thing, if not a problem at other times.

The state of Wei died, and the king of Wei also surrendered.

Then these Wei soldiers will follow Qin and become part of the Qin army.

But the situation at this time is a bit delicate... The Chu army is still surrounded.

The Chu army and the Wei army were originally allies, the Chu army came to rescue and the 20 Wei army was in the city, and the Qin army only had [-]...

So what if all the 20 Wei troops were disarmed?

When the Chu army was overwhelming the territory, it was inevitable that some people would think about it, such as restoring the country and setting up another master.

Once there is chaos, the Qin army will be attacked from inside and outside, and the Qin army will die without a place to die.

So it's not letting go or staying.

Yang Duanhe lost his mind for a while.

Is it necessary to give all these 40 Wei soldiers like Bai Qi killed 20 Zhao troops...

For this reason, Yang Duanhe also came to ask Shen Bing.

Faced with this situation, Shen Bing was helpless.

At this time, there is nothing moral to say. If you talk about morality with Wei Bing at this time, when the Qin army is defeated and captured and sent to beheaded, who will talk about morality with Qin Bing?

Especially this is related to Shen Bing's own life.

At this moment, a Wei general who was covered in injuries asked to see Yang Duanhe with the support of several personal guards.

Yang Duanhe signaled his guards to let him go.

I saw General Wei gritted his teeth and knelt down kneeling while holding on to his pain, saying:

"Wei Wei, the defeated general of the Wei State, met General Yang."

Yang Duanhe had heard about Wei Xie, so he hurried forward to help him.

"It turned out to be General Wei."

"The general is injured and does not need to perform this great gift."

But Wei Wei refused to get up no matter what:

"General Yang, the defeated general Wei Xing promises that as long as there is a sigh of relief, the Wei soldiers will not make trouble."

"And the 20 Wei soldiers in Daliang will be loyal to Great Qin forever."

"At this critical moment, the defeat will personally imprison all the Wei soldiers in the prison and send them to the general."

"If the general refuses, we can cut off Wei Xi's head right now!"

Shen Bing secretly thought that this guy was a character.

On the surface, it seems that he did this to please the Qin army recklessly for survival, such as imprisoning all 20 Wei soldiers...that is to hand over their life and death to the Qin army without reservation.

But in fact, Wei Wei is to save Wei Bing.

Only in this way can it be possible to save Wei Bing.

But even if these Wei soldiers are put in prison, there are still scruples... That's 20 Wei soldiers!

As long as one person escapes and opens the cell door, and then one opens two, two opens four, 20 will soon become a fortune.

So Yang Duanhe hesitated, but finally nodded and said:

"Just do what General Wei wants."

Wei Xing was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and said:

"The defeated general thanked the general!"

"The general's great kindness, Wei Wei will never forget it!"