Daqin Engineering Corps

Meng Tian's analysis is correct, this is actually Shen Bing's idea.

Shen Bing did not order the pursuit of the Qin army before, but it was not "mercy".

Although Qin Jun can be regarded as one of his own people, if he succeeds in helping Su in the future, he will still be his own... But at this moment, he is undoubtedly the enemy.

To be soft to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself, and Shen Bing will not be so stupid that he has the ability to destroy Hanoi Bing but let him maintain his vitality and make a comeback.

Shen Bing knows very well that Hanoi soldiers are elite soldiers who have followed Yang Duanhe for many years.

The difference between elite soldiers and other troops is that they are defeated but not defeated.

Shen Bing chased and killed the Hanoi soldiers all the way with cavalry, which could really hurt their vitality.

But when they are in crisis, they will consciously organize to resist, and there are more than [-] of them, so in the end, the Shen soldiers will also lose their troops.

There was absolutely no need for Shen Bing to do this.

Loulan was originally a city where the water source was about to run out, and the water was barely enough for 3 to [-] people to drink. How could there be no problems if more than [-] people were concentrated there?

Why did Shen Bing waste his energy and do it himself?

Shen Bing was right in guessing that Yang Ting was also powerless in Loulana. Although she sent troops to search for water sources, she still couldn't meet the needs of the army.

Coupled with the fact that Shen Bing sent cavalry troops to harass and cut off its supply line, the Qin army made things worse. In desperation, many soldiers quenched their thirst with urine.

How can we fight in this situation?

Yang Ting suggested several times, persuading Xingchi to temporarily withdraw from Shazhou to reorganize the army, but Xingchi flatly refused...

It is not surprising that there will be such a difference. The goals of the two are different.

Yang Ting hoped to save her strength to avenge her father. As the saying goes, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. She couldn't just watch the old man who was loyal to her father die of thirst meaninglessly.

But Xing Chi is eager to get rid of Fusu, thinking of desperately attacking Gu Shi, of course it is impossible to withdraw the troops back to the sandbar.

Xing Chi waited and waited until Meng Tian came up with a bad idea:

Since the water source in Loulan cannot supply more than [-] troops to drink, why not send tens of thousands of people to attack Gu Shi?

Instead of letting them stay in Loulan and die of thirst, it is better to let them die in the siege battle.

In this way, the problem of water shortage in Loulan can be alleviated, and the military strength of Shen Bing can be consumed. Why not kill two birds with one stone?

Thinking about it, Xingchi was moved by his cleverness!

Chapter 548 Riot

Xing Chi is an eunuch who has been in the palace for many years, and he only has power and tactics in his head. How did he know that leading troops in battle pays attention to morale.

This matter didn't even go through Yang Ting, and directly ordered Li Yan, who was stationed outside the city, to lead an army of [-] to attack Gushi northward.

Li Yan originally thought that this order was okay...he was just a lieutenant general and didn't know the whole battle plan, maybe they were just the vanguard?

Unexpectedly, when the army arrived at Gushi City, the water supply carried with the army was about to run out, but the water from behind did not come up for a long time.

I sent a quick horse back to Loulan to inquire, and the answer I got was: "Loulan's water supply is in short supply, and you can solve it yourself."

Li Yan was stunned on the spot. In this vast desert, Shen Bing's cavalry is everywhere, and every water source is under his control. How can he "solve it by himself"?

There was no other way, Li Yan blocked the news and urgently asked Lou Lan for instructions... The reason why he blocked the news was because he knew that if the news leaked out, it would cause riots immediately, and the battle would be lost.

However, there is no impenetrable wall in this world, especially during this period of time when the water supply, which was not much at first, has been decreasing again and again, and tens of thousands of people in the army are eagerly waiting for water to be delivered from the rear.

Li Yan always said to his subordinates: "The water supply will arrive soon, not immediately..."

As a result, it didn't arrive after a few days, and I couldn't even urinate.

The subordinates were in a hurry, and several people stopped the fast horses running towards Loulan. After asking, they found out that Loulan wanted the troops to "solve it by themselves" but did not allow the army to return to Loulan.

Qin Jun refused to agree:

"This is driving me to a dead end!"

"I'm waiting here risking my life to besiege the city, but they are happy in Loulan. How can it not chill the hearts of the soldiers of the three armies for the country?"

"Xing Chi and the eunuchs have never been short of water, why do we have to work for him?"

……

This is right, no matter how short of water the troops are, they will never be short of Xing Chi and the eunuchs he brought with him.

How can Qin Jun balance this comparison?

So someone shouted: "If you don't turn now, when will you wait? Go back to Loulan and take that lucky dog's life!"

In a moment of anger, the crowd drew out the bronze sword and shouted to go back to Loulan.

But at this time, someone shouted again: "It will take more than ten days to go to Loulan. I will die of thirst halfway. Can you still kill Xingchi?"

The soldiers of the Qin Army all sighed: "Fortunately, this guy is very vicious, and he dared to do this only when he knew that I would not be able to turn back!"

After a while of silence, someone suggested:

"Why don't I vote for Shen Bing? Otherwise, there will be death but no life!"

"I heard that Fusu was murdered by an adulterer, not if it was rumored that he was murdered by the emperor."

"I didn't believe in myself before, but now I am fortunate enough to do such a thing, how can I not believe it?"

……

So in response to all calls, the Qin army launched a riot like a tide and attacked Li Yan's tent.

Most of the riots in the Qin army started with the soldiers at the bottom. The reason was the same as the Yanquan riots. No matter how strict the Qin law was, there was a saying that "the law does not punish the masses".

For example, for the fifty thousand Qin soldiers, if everyone wanted to use the Qin law to raid their homes and even their seats, how many millions of people would be implicated.

Even with the brutality of Yingzheng, he would not dare to order the massacre of millions of people in one go.

Therefore, even if this kind of riot is suppressed, the leading or commanding generals will be held for questioning, and they will be used as scapegoats to make an example of others.

In fact, not to mention these soldiers, even Li Yan has objections in his heart.

But he didn't dare to rebel. His family members were all in Xianyang.

Seeing his subordinates making trouble at this time, knowing that his subordinates would not harm him, he hoped that Li Yan could lead them to join Shen Bing or ask for an explanation...

But Li Yan still sighed helplessly, and led his subordinates on horseback to escape from the camp from the rebellious army and headed straight for Loulan.

So Shen Bing added another [-] Qin troops.

Shen Bing thought that the time had come, so he ordered to distribute water and food to the [-] Qin troops, and when the crowd was angry, he took the army to attack Loulan.

There are still [-] Qin troops in Loulan, which should have been easy to defend but difficult to attack.

But when the [-] Qin troops stood outside the city and cursed at the top of the city, the Loulan defenders knew what was going on.

There is a saying that "the rabbit dies and the fox is sad". These [-] Qin soldiers were sent to the aunt to die as abandoned sons, and at this time Loulan's water supply is still insufficient...Then the next batch, will they be the abandoned sons?

Or is it that being sent to defend the city at this time is considered an abandoned child without knowing it?

The more I think about it, the more wrong I am. Luckily, the Chi Party drank and ate meat in the city, but they fought on the top of the city with thirst. How can they convince people?

As a result, riots spread into the city like a plague, and the [-] Qin troops quickly became chaotic.

However, Li Yan had been prepared for a long time. As soon as there was any movement, he immediately took Yang Ting and a thousand guards and fled out of the city with supplies.

It's ridiculous that Xingchi and his party didn't know the end was coming before they died, so don't drink and have fun in the city.

When Qin Jun rushed into his residence, Xing Chi shouted loudly...

The soldiers of the Qin army didn't care about the many, they stepped forward and cut off his head with a sword, then grabbed the bloody head by the hair and raised it to the door, shouting: "Xing Chiye has given the head!"

The soldiers of the Qin Army shouted thunderously for a while, as if they had won a battle.

Therefore, most of the 15 Qin troops belonged to Shen Bing, and only more than [-] people were worried that their families would be affected and fled to the sandbar with Li Yan.

Originally, Jiang wanted to take advantage of the situation to chase after him...

This is a good idea from a tactical point of view. The Qin army has no morale and temporarily flees without water and supplies. Chasing and killing along the way will surely kill more than half of the more than [-] defeated troops.

But Shen Bing didn't let Jiang do this.

The reason is simple, what is tactically correct may not necessarily be strategically correct, and may even be a failure.

What would these routs do when they fled back to the sandbar?

Are you saying that Shen Bing is too powerful?

Or shouldn't the [-] Qin army rebel against Qin?

Or blame the other Qin army for not rioting?

of course not.

After they return to Shazhou, they will definitely sue Xingchi for his crimes, and Xingchi is Zhao Gao's confidant... This will directly affect the prestige and control of Zhao Gao's party.

If Shen Bing chased and killed these rout soldiers all the way, wouldn't that be helping Zhao Gao?

Therefore, instead of chasing and killing these rout soldiers, Shen Bing ordered the cavalry guarding the water source along the way to withdraw to Loulan and Gushi.

He was even worried that the Qin army's rout could not find a water source, so they rebuilt the road signs that had been dismantled, leaving a small group of rangers along the way to guide the way, and sometimes threw water bags full of water to the Qin army who was about to die of thirst.

But of course, while the cavalry was doing this, it took advantage of the opportunity to make a wave of advertisements for Fusu:

"If it weren't for the benevolence of the son Fusu Zhai, thinking that you are all citizens of Daqin, I would let you wait to die of thirst in a foreign land at this moment!"

In this way, how would those Qin soldiers want to help Su?

When they returned to Qin, how would they evaluate Fusu?

Chapter 549 Letter

When Shen Bing defeated Yang Duanhe's Hanoi soldiers in the Western Regions, Meng Liang was drinking by himself in Beidi Xiaozhu in Xianyang.

"Beidi Xiaozhu" is taken from Shen Bing's Beidi General, and it also means that this is the inn of Beidi in Xianyang.

This is the inn that Meng Liang opened in Xianyang to manage the cloth, silk, and paper industries in the Northland. If he needs to discuss business every day, Meng Liang will entertain him in this inn.

These days, Meng Liang lived up to Shen Bing's entrustment, and managed the Northland business in full swing, especially after adding seeds from the Western Regions, special food, good horses from the Huns, and jade from Seleucid, etc. Xiaozhu has become a hot spot pursued by dignitaries and dignitaries in Xianyang.

However, these days, Meng Liang is always frowning.

This is not because the business of Beidi Xiaozhu is slow.

In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that Beidi Xiaozhu is making money every day. Beidi and even the Beidi army led by Shen Bing have long since stopped worrying about supply money, even if the business has dropped a lot, it doesn't matter much.

The problem is that……

Shen Bing was wronged as a traitor?

Fusu was wronged for murdering the emperor!

Outrageous!

Meng Liang poured rice wine into his stomach one cup after another.

He laughed a few times to take advantage of the wine, but soon turned to crying, and then continued to add wine to the glass while shaking his head and sighing.

Meng Liang's father, Meng Jia, was a minister who won the government, so he had heard the news a long time ago, and asked Meng Liang to cut off contact with Shen Bing and his party, and he was not allowed to mention Shen Bing and Fusu again, otherwise it would be "disaster from the mouth". out".

Meng Liang was not sad because of this, he only hated that he was assigned to Xianyang to take care of business, and he was not able to live a happy life with Shen Bing in the Western Regions in Seleucid.

Once upon a time, he, Meng Liang, was nothing more than a dandy who had nothing to do all day long. Although he had no worries about food and clothing, he was extremely boring.

It wasn't until he followed Shen Bing that he discovered that there are so many funs in this world.

rebellion?

So what if it really rebelled?

If it wasn't for his father's obstruction or consideration for his family, Meng Liang had already taken his family to follow Shen Bing.

But now...

At this moment, there were two light knocks from outside the door, and after getting permission, a waiter came in with a jug of wine and said, "Doctor, the wine you want!"

Because Meng Liang served in the Northern Army, and relying on his father's relationship, he has successfully obtained the title of doctor, so he was called a doctor.

Meng Liang was a little strange, he didn't order wine, why did this guy suddenly come up to refill a pot?