Qin Official

(Second update)

"This guy can't sit still anymore."

Heifu sighed, opened the curtain and went in to take a look. Sure enough, it was the East Gate Leopard that was furious.

It turned out that after arriving in Daliang, Dongmen Bao calculated the time and found that his wife's due date had passed and his child had been born. So he gave up the idea of ​​returning to Nanjun immediately, and instead thought about gaining military exploits in the battle to attack Wei, so that he could have a good background for his "son" whom he had never met.

Titles and the corresponding benefits of land and residence can be passed on to sons, so most Qin family members send their children to the battlefield with tears in their eyes and instructions: "No, don't come back."

Combat, beheading, meritorious service, and promotion are the only ways for social advancement for most Guizhou leaders in Qin.

But the way of war in front of him made Dongmen Bao's plan come to nothing. After digging a ditch under Daliang City for half a month, he completely turned into a violent beast trapped in a cage...

Looking at the others, Ji Ying was picking out lice in his clothes, Bu Cheng was continuing to calculate tomorrow's weather, Li Xian was mending clothes with his head down, and the others were also lying on the straw mat, enjoying a rare rest.

These days, they have become accustomed to Dongmen Leopard's roar, and no one cares about him anymore.

So Dongmen Leopard could only come over and pester Heifu, complaining to him: "Heifu, you should tell me what General Xiao Wang has in mind. It's been half a month and the city has not been attacked. If there is no war, what does he want to do?"

"Want to know?" Heifu raised his eyes, and Dongmen Bao nodded quickly: "I want to!"

Heifu didn't tell everyone the truth because he only made guesses based on historical records, but after these few days of observation, he already had a clear idea of ​​General Wang Ben's plan.

"Do you still remember the Yan County we passed through?" Heifu asked Dongmen Bao to sit down.

"Remember." Of course Dongmen Bao remembered that Gong Ao, who lived in the shack next door, was from Yan County.

"The northeastern city wall of Yan County is newly built. It is a different color from the other walls. Have you noticed?"

Dongmen Leopard shook his head like a rattle: "I didn't pay attention."

Of course, Heifu knew that this reckless guy wouldn't care about such details, so he continued: "That section of earth wall was washed away by floods more than fifty years ago. At that time, Lord Wu'an was attacking Chu, and when he besieged Yan City, Jiu attacked If it doesn't fall, we use the nearby water flow to build embankments to store water, and build a long canal to reach the bottom of Yan City. Then we open canals to flood the city, and Yan City is destroyed..."

At this time, other people also stopped what they were doing and gathered around. Li Xian first asked: "What the pavilion chief means is that the reason why General Wang is not attacking Daliang now and still allows us to dig ditches is that Are you planning to follow Lord Wu An’s methods?”

"Yes, there are plenty of granaries in Daliang. If we defend it, we can last for a year and a half. Moreover, there are more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city. If we attack by force, our army will definitely suffer heavy losses. Therefore, the most reliable way to attack the city is to attack the city by water!"

Most of the city walls these days are made of rammed earth and are extremely thick, so the various catapults in movies and TV shows are not of much use. Instead, they are water and fire, which are often useful when attacking a city. There is an article in Sun Tzu's Art of War specifically about fire attacks, and water attacks were also widely used by strategists in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The most famous one is probably the story of Zhibo flooding Jinyang City, and Zhao Wuxie almost didn't survive.

Heifu continued: "I wonder if you have noticed that the terrain of Daliang City is already low-lying, and not far to the north is the surging river. I asked a few Wei people who were captured for hard labor, and they said that the river is The terrain is actually several feet higher than the ground! It is completely blocked by the earthen walls of Xingyang, and there has been no flooding for more than ten years."

"Just imagine, if General Wang asked the garrison soldiers to dig up the river defense in Yingkou, and then use long canals to divert water here to block the gap..."

Bu Cheng was a superstitious practitioner of Feng Shui and was more sensitive to the terrain. He suddenly took a breath of cold air and said, "In that case, the beams will be flooded!"

"Of course, if this happens, the city will be destroyed by the flood without any casualties from Qin's soldiers!"

Heifu was also filled with emotion. This Wang Ben was really the son of the veteran general Wang Jian. It could be seen from the way he attacked the city that Wang Ben had learned his father's special skills.

When the Wang family fights in a war, when there is no need to take risks, they only use one word: Steady!

And Wang Jian is as steady as an old dog. The key is that besides being steady, he can also use surprise, deception, and conspiracy. This is how Li Mu, the last famous general of the Zhao Kingdom, was tricked to death...

Better than the battlefield, but defeated by the conspiracy of the court.

When Heifu said this, Dongmen Bao blinked: "So, I waited here in Daliang not to fight, but to be specially recruited to dig ditches and do corvee work?"

"You finally got it right."

Dongmen Leopard immediately stamped his feet in anger.

Ji Ying also said: "Heifu, if this is the case, as long as the river water comes in, won't this beam collapse quickly?"

Hei Fu shook his head and said: "Otherwise, although this method is stable enough, it is also slow. I have taken a good look outside Daliang City these days. It is indeed a great city in the Central Plains. No matter which side, the walls are very thick. . It cannot be soaked and broken within two or three months. Even if the water pours into the city and submerges the ground, the Wei people inside will not surrender immediately, so this battle is still far from over..."

"By the time the city is broken, the people of Wei have been cooking in cauldrons for a long time, surrounded by floods. Diseases may breed, and their morale and fighting spirit have long been exhausted. Once the city is broken, the King of Wei will probably surrender directly. By then there will be no war to fight in the city.”

"Therefore, if you stay here, you will definitely not get any meritorious title!"

When everyone heard this, their expressions immediately turned bitter. They had been away from their hometown for more than three months. They came all the way here, and the money they brought with them gradually ran out, their clothes and shoes became torn, and they also worked hard for many days with the prisoners. It's really not easy. If there is no more credit to be earned in the end, this trip will be a big loss.

Of course Heifu knew this, so why wasn't he looking for meritorious service and promotion? If after the war he is still the head of the pavilion with a hairpin, and he returns to Anlu County, he still doesn't know how Zuo Wei Yunman, who has a grudge against him, will harm him.

For the Wei people in the city, Daliang was already a place of death. For Heifu, who was pursuing his career, how could it not be a place of death?

He looked at the expressions of everyone in the shack. Except for a few people with mediocre martial arts who were relieved to hear that staying in Daliang would end the war safely, the rest were a little unwilling...

What Heifu wants is this kind of unwillingness!

So Hei Fu said again: "But now, there is an opportunity! Let us leave Daliang and seek opportunities to make meritorious deeds!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up!

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Half an hour passed. After discussing with everyone, Heifu took off the shabby brown clothes he wore for work, put on a new robe that he kept at the bottom of his luggage, and tied up his long red turban. , walked out of the camp.

Among the gray and black crowd, Hei Fu stood out.

"Ting...pavilion chief, what you want...willow branches."

At this time, Xiao Tao ran over panting and handed a willow branch soaked in a bowl to Heifu. This was what Heifu asked him to find.

Hei Fu was not polite. He took the willow branch and bit it open with his teeth. Then he looked at the less clear water in the bowl and asked suspiciously: "The water in this bowl is not from the moat, right?"

The moat has become a smelly toilet with tens of thousands of people peeing in it all day long.

"No." Xiao Tao's face turned red from nervousness, and he stammered and waved his hands: "Absolutely not! This... is well water."

The Wei people had thrown away dead livestock in the old wells to clear the fields with strong walls. The water in the wells Xiao Tao mentioned was newly dug by Hei Fu and the other garrison soldiers in the past half month.

Xiao Tao was an honest person and would not lie to Hei Fu, so Hei Fu did not doubt his presence, so he drank some water and rinsed his mouth with a bitten willow branch.

Although conditions are limited during the war, Heifu still cleans his mouth every day. These days, there is no way to repair broken teeth, and Heifu doesn't want to be in his thirties and have bad teeth like the prisoners in Guizhou.

What's more, it's not polite to talk to your boss with bad breath, isn't it? Hei Fu was also helpless. The Fangcheng county captain in charge of their group was a member of a clan, and he actually had a mysophobia that was rare in this era...

After he was done, he breathed and smelled, and then walked deeper into the camp. He walked to the largest tent in their small camp where thousands of people were stationed. He asked the soldiers guarding the gate and said that the county captain was indeed inside. .

Heifu heard the news that while General Wang Ben was working on the water conservancy project in Daliang, he finally planned to send partial troops to attack the counties in the eastern part of Wei State. This county captain was one of the commanders...

This is an opportunity to leave this desperate place, and Heifu doesn’t want to miss it!

So Hei Fu stood still outside the camp and said loudly: "Hei Fu Hairpin of Anlu County, please see the Lord of Two and Five Hundred!"