Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

"Strange, have the Qin Army's reinforcements arrived?"

A few miles away from the city where Meng Ao was stationed, a huge military camp sat here. In the military camp, hundreds of dark red tents were arranged in an extremely exquisite formation.

Once an enemy invades, no matter whether it attacks from any direction, the soldiers in this military camp can immediately gather their combat power and launch a counterattack.

In the central main tent, the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army, Wu'an Jun Li Mu, looked at the sand table and moved several flags in succession. In the end, Ruo Ruo stroked his beard and frowned, shaking his head in confusion.

"It's still wrong. If the enemy's reinforcements arrive, the best option would be to take a detour from behind our army and then attack from the front and back... Could it be that the other side has seen through my trap?"

Li Mu calculated it several times in his mind, but each time he came up with completely different results from the current situation.

The first is the number of enemy troops.

According to the number of Qin army casualties they had calculated from cleaning the battlefield before, Li Mu was basically certain that at least nearly half of the Qin army's elite troops were lost in this battle.

After all, after a war, no matter in Qin or Zhao, there were many people who had amputations or even died due to wound inflammation.

But the fact is that during the previous rounds of sieges organized by Li Mu, the Qin army showed far more effectiveness in defense than he initially expected.

This is the first variable.

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

Before the war began, Zhao Guo had clearly 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 lasted, the more disadvantageous it would be for the Qin Army. .

Therefore, whether the Qin army chooses to attack or retreat at this time, Li Mu can understand. But the other party chose a method that seemed to be the most unreasonable.

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

"Could it be that something unexpected happened within Qin State?"

Just when an idea flashed in Li Mu's mind and he felt he had grasped a clue, suddenly, an emergency call came from outside the camp.

"Inform the general, the Qin army has retreated!"

"What?"

Li Mu was startled when he heard this, then decisively raised the curtain and walked out of the military camp.

A few hours later.

Li Mu stood outside Chili City, looking at the empty wasteland in front of him, and did not return to his senses for a long time.

The Qin army's retreat was much faster and more thorough than he 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 Qingdu City, Meng Ao was in charge of the central army, while Zhang Tang led the vanguard and charged in formation. Under the cover of catapults and chariots, the army rushed outside the city gate almost instantly.

Then, with the help of the battering ram, the city gate was quickly blasted open. Then Zhang Tang led his troops to attack Huanglong, and soon controlled all the soldiers and generals who defended the city.

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

Because no matter what kind of rebellion, it has little to do with soldiers. Even if there is a liquidation afterwards, it will not be able to affect these soldiers.

Once the law comes, it does not blame everyone.

Secondly, in war, soldiers are the swords in the hands of generals. Although Jun Chengyu of Chang'an rebelled, these soldiers were innocent.

However, just because the soldiers at the bottom are fine does not mean that the generals at all levels are not guilty either.

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

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

After capturing Qingdu.

Only one day passed.

A retreating army appeared outside the city wall and was hurriedly fleeing, and the leader was Chang'an Jun Chenglong.

Chang'an Juncheng's appearance is the same as that of Ying Zheng, he also inherited the blood of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, and he is extraordinary in martial arts. However, at this moment, Cheng Xi was covered in blood and mess, and he could not see the magnanimity of the prince and noble he once was.

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

As soon as they approached Qingdu, Chang'an Junchenglong started shouting crazily.

Chang'an Juncheng led a rebellion in Tunliu, and Qingdu was the last escape route he left for himself. It was adjacent to the border of Zhao State. As long as he took a step back, he could directly escape into Zhao State's territory.

But unfortunately, Cheng Xi's rebellion completely angered Ying Zheng. Even if Ying Zheng gave up the three Zhao cities he had already obtained, he would outflank Cheng Xi from behind and completely cut off Cheng Xi's retreat.

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

"The traitor has become a dragon, and he will be captured without restraint."

With a roar, the central city gate opened wide, and Zhang Tang led his troops to charge towards Cheng Xi.

Cheng Xi's face changed drastically, and he decisively abandoned his troops and fled.

Meng Ao ordered all the rebels to be stripped of their armor and captured, while Zhang Tang continued to pursue Cheng Yu in the direction of his 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 only 50,000 troops, how could it possibly compete with Qin's army of one million.

Although Fan Yuqi once put up a small resistance, the news of Chengyu's rebellion spread to Xianyang until the end of the rebellion. Even if the time it took Wang Jian to assemble his army and rush on the road was included, the total journey would not exceed three days.

Except Cheng Xi and Fan Yuqi.

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

Today, it can be said that Cheng Xi has no way to escape, especially under the encirclement and suppression of a hundred thousand troops. There is no place for Cheng Xi in the entire Qin State.

I thought that catching Cheng Xi was a sure thing.

But at this moment.

Cheng Yu did something that no one expected.

He surrendered to Zhao.

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"Asshole!"

Meng Ao, who was taking over the military power of the garrison from Wang Jian's army, suddenly heard the news and became furious.

Cheng Yu's betrayal of Ying Zheng is actually not worth caring about for Meng Ao and Zhang Tang. After all, in the final analysis, this can only be regarded as an internal conflict within the royal family.

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

As a member of the Qin royal family, surrendering to Zhao was an insult to the royal family and a provocation to Qin's dignity.

as expected.

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

"All generals above centurion and above under Cheng Yu and Fan Yuqi were executed."

"Those below the centurion level will be deprived of their military positions and titles."

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

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