Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

  Chapter 16 Counter-insurgency and implication

   "Strange, has Qin's reinforcements arrived yet?"

   A few miles away from Meng Ao's garrison city, a huge military camp is located here. In the military camp, hundreds of dark red tents present an extremely delicate formation.

  Once an enemy invades, regardless of attacking from any direction, the soldiers in this barracks will be able to gather combat power in the first place and launch a counterattack.

  In the central main tent, the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army—Wu Anjun Li Mu looked at the deduction sand table and moved several flags in a row. Finally, if he frowned, he shook his head in confusion.

   "It's still wrong. If the enemy's reinforcements arrive, it's best to take a detour from the rear of our army, and then attack back and forth... Could it be that the opposite side has seen through the old man's trap?"

  Li Mu calculated in his mind several times in a row, but each time the result was completely different from the current situation.

   The first is the number of enemy troops.

  According to the statistics of the death toll of the Qin army that they cleaned the battlefield before, Li Mu can basically be sure that at least half of the elite Qin army lost in this battle.

   After all, after a war, whether in Qin or Zhao, the number of amputations and even deaths due to wound inflammation is not a minority.

   But the fact is that during the previous rounds of sieges organized by Li Mu, the Qin army showed more effective defense in defense than he estimated at the beginning.

   This is the first variable.

  Secondly, the attitude shown by Qin Jun is also surprising.

  Before the war started, Zhao Guoming had sent a small army to destroy the largest batch of grain and grass supported by the Qin army. The longer the stalemate between the two sides, the more unfavorable it would be for the Qin army. .

  So no matter whether the Qin army chooses to forcefully attack or retreat at this time, Li Mu can understand. However, the other party chose the most unreasonable approach.

   It would be fine if there were reinforcements in the future, but Li Mu had laid out the bait for such a long time, but there was not even a single prey that took the bait.

   "Could it be that something happened inside Qin?"

  Just when a flash of inspiration flashed in Li Mu's mind, and he felt that he had caught a certain clue, suddenly, there was an urgent call from outside the tent.

   "Report to the general, the Qin army has retreated!"

"What?"

   Li Mu was startled when he heard the words, and then decisively lifted the curtain and walked out of the barracks.

   Several hours later.

  Li Mu stood outside Chili City, looking at the empty wasteland in front of him, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

  The Qin army's retreat was far faster and more thorough than he had imagined. Even the three cities that had been captured before were abandoned after simple looting.

   It can be seen that this retreat was also an unexpected situation for the Qin army.

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"kill!!"

  Outside the city of Qingdu, Meng Ao was in charge of the central army, while Zhang Tang led the charge in formation. Under the cover of catapults and chariots, the army rushed out of the city gate almost instantly.

  Then with the help of the siege hammer, the gate of the city was quickly blasted open, and then Zhang Tang led the troops to attack Huanglong, and soon controlled all the guarding soldiers and a general.

  After Meng Ao entered the city, he ordered all the soldiers to be temporarily guarded, but they were not detained.

  Because no matter what the rebellion is, it has little to do with soldiers. Even if it is liquidated afterwards, it is impossible to affect these soldiers.

   Once the law does not blame the public.

  Secondly, in wars, soldiers are the swords in the hands of generals. Although Chang'an Jun Chengxu rebelled, these soldiers are innocent.

  But the soldiers at the bottom are fine, but it doesn’t mean that the generals at all levels are also innocent.

  In such a rebellion, the higher the position, the more serious the subsequent crimes.

   Therefore, all the generals were strictly imprisoned by Meng Ao, waiting for the king to issue a judgment afterwards.

   After capturing Qingdu.

   Only one day has passed.

   Outside the city wall, a retreating army appeared in a hurry, and the leader was Chang'an Jun Chengyu.

  Changan Jun Chengyu has the same appearance as Yingzheng, and also inherited the blood of King Qin Zhuangxiang, and he is very heroic. However, at this moment, Cheng Yu was covered in blood and messes all over his body, and he couldn't see the demeanor of being a prince and noble at all.

   "Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly!"

  As soon as he got close to Qingdu, Chang'an Jun Chengyu started to shout crazily.

  Chang’an Jun Chengyu caused a rebellion in Tunliu, and Qingdu was the last escape route he left for himself. This place is adjacent to the border of Zhao State. As long as he takes a step back, he can directly escape into Zhao State’s territory.

   But it is a pity that Cheng Yu's rebellion completely angered Yingzheng, making Yingzheng even if he gave up the three Zhao Kingdom cities he had already acquired, he had to outflank Chengyu from the back and completely cut off Chengyu's back road.

  So when Meng Ao walked out from the city wall of Qingdu, Cheng Yu's face instantly turned pale.

   "The traitor becomes a weed, and he will be caught before it's done."

  Accompanied by a roar, the central city gate opened wide, and Zhang Tang led the troops to rush towards Cheng Yu.

   Cheng Xun's face changed drastically, and he resolutely abandoned his troops and fled.

   Meng Ao ordered all the rebels to be disarmed and captured, while Zhang Tang continued to chase in the direction of Chengyu's escape. On the way, Zhang Tang led the army and successfully merged with Wang Jian's army.

   The rebellion started by Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi was a joke.

  With a mere 50,000 troops, how could it be possible to compete with Qin's million-strong army.

  Although Fan Yuqi resisted a little, the news of Chengyu's rebellion spread to Xianyang until the end of the rebellion. Even including the time it took for Wang Jian to organize his army to travel, the whole journey would not exceed three days.

   Except for Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi.

  The generals and soldiers under the two men were all beheaded and captured.

   Today's Cheng Yu can be said to have nowhere to escape, especially under the siege of a hundred thousand troops, the entire Qin State has no place for Cheng Yu.

  I thought it was a surefire thing to catch Cheng Hu.

   But at this moment.

  Cheng Xun did something that no one expected.

  He surrendered to Zhao.

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   "Bastard!"

  Meng Ao, who was taking over the garrison power from Wang Jian's army, suddenly heard the news, and immediately flew into a rage.

   Cheng Xun's betrayal of Yingzheng is actually not worth caring about for Meng Ao and Zhang Tang. After all, this can only be regarded as a contradiction within the royal family.

  But the moment he surrendered to Zhao, the nature of the matter changed completely.

  As the royal family of Qin, but surrendered to Zhao, this is an insult to the blood of the royal family and a challenge to the dignity of Qin.

as expected.

  On the second day after Meng Ao received the news that Cheng Yu had surrendered to Zhao, a military order from Xianyang was sent to Tunliu.

   "Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi's generals above the centurion level were all executed."

   "The centurion and below will be deprived of military posts and titles."

   "All the people who stayed in the fief were exiled to Lintao."

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  (end of this chapter)