If the battle of Qingshui was won by luck, then the battle of Daliang and Chen Ying, the Chu army relied on the upgrading of technology and tactics.

The three pulp wings crushed the single pulp wings, the huge soldiers and the huge armor completely exploded the bronze soldiers' leather armor, and the column tactics were far better than the horizontal team tactics, even the proudest cavalry of the Qin State in the last war was now difficult to compete with the cavalry of the Chu army. For more than a year, the Chu army has been continuously upgraded, while the Qin army has been the same as always, and the only improvement may be the crude imitation of the Shaofu in the hands of the general.

If such an advantage can be maintained, especially the advantage of Jutie and Big-Wing Warboats, ten years later, the Chu army will reverse the situation of passive defense and turn to active attack; Twenty years later, when the Chu army trained a new generation of soldiers and established a modern officer corps, the Qin State would inevitably be driven back to Guanzhong. It's just that in the next ten to twenty years, it is unlikely that the Chu State will have the leisure to reorganize the army and run the military, and it can only innovate military technology and improve the training of non-commissioned officers and officer corps while fighting again. It is also difficult to maintain the advantage of huge iron, after this battle, the Qin State will definitely try to study the smelting of huge iron, maybe the Qin State will not be able to refine the iron, but it can always make a hundred steel.

Facing up to and not being afraid of the Qin State is the attitude that the Chu State should have. The alliance and Xiong Jing no longer thought about it, and the Qin State could only fight on the battlefield. Because of this, the barrier of Wei is no longer necessary, and the removal of this barrier can make the Chu people feel the existential crisis, instead of always thinking that there is Wei in front of them and Wei in front of them.

Xiong Jing's attitude was like this, but Zhao Huang was uneasy. Because of the protection of the Wei State, the Chu State has not fought for decades, and now, the king not only fought with the Qin State as soon as he ascended the throne, but also faced the Qin State and fought for many years after that.

It is difficult for him to agree with such a national policy. In all the countries of the world, everyone is seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, but the king wants to ask for his own hardships. In two years, the stock of grain in the high treasury was emptied, and even if the corn in the warehouse could be grabbed in a few months, it would be a drop in the bucket.

There will be no more days of rest with the people! Five days later, when 10,000 new soldiers, more than 2,000 tons of corn, more than 1,000 tons of military supplies, and more than 300 tons of other supplies were transported into Chen Ying in advance, Zhao Huang returned to Yingdu with such regrets.

As soon as he left, the mouth of the East Lake was reoccupied by the Qin army, and the mouth of the lake dredged by the Chu army was once again blocked by boats filled with sediment. In order to prevent the recurrence of the old tricks of the Chu army, the narrow strip on both sides of the lake mouth was cut off by the Qin army, and the gourd mouth connecting the East Lake to the chasm was transformed into a boxy trapezoidal mouth. In this way, the Chu army could no longer rely on the narrow terrain to resist the Qin army for five days, and the boats in the East Lake could no longer get close to the land by the lake, and the place hundreds of steps wide was a shallow area more than a foot high, and the water was sprinkled with thistles.

Everything is so that there will be no next time, but it is too late. There was no time to bring corn and artillery shells into the city...... It was piled up on the wharf of the two water gates in the southeast, and the Chu army happily carried it, almost like a wax sacrifice. Looking at the mountains of corn, the lord Meng Wu was not allowed to write to Xianyang to ask for guilt.

And the reinforcements drawn from the army of the feudal monarch gave the Qin and Wei armies color on the first day of battle. They rushed down the corpse ladder outside the city wall to the bottom of the wall, killing the unsuspecting enemy and turning them on their backs. Those chariots that did not retreat to the city two hundred and fifty paces away in time were pulled down by the crossbow one after another.

The continuous offensive day and night had to be stopped, and the Qin and Wei armies retreated to a distance of 350 steps from the city wall, as they had done two months earlier. They had to start over here - consuming the Chu army's artillery shells and arrows with tens of thousands of lives.

"Mengwu is incompetent!" In Qutai Palace, Xianyang, Zhao Zheng, who received Meng Wu's letter of guilt, was furious and slammed the book to the ground.

"Please calm the king's anger." The national lieutenant Huan Qi took the lead, and the rest of the generals and strategists pleaded with Zhao Zheng together. "The Jing people seized both sides of the lake mouth and transported, which was premeditated. When General Meng first took office, it was inevitable that he would be negligent. If the commander is dismissed again, the morale of the army will inevitably be unstable. The morale of the enemy rises and falls, which is not good for the siege. ”

Huan Qi said a lot of reasons, but only the last one made Zhao Zheng rest thinking about replacing Meng Wu. "Even if it is inevitable, it will be cut to the third rank." Zhao Zheng stubbornly suppressed his anger, but his hand kept slapping the case hard. Thinking of the soldiers who died in battle in three months, he was unwilling to say: "All the generals in the military formation are all cut to the third rank!" ”

"Yui." The king's royal mandate is the law, not to mention that Meng Wu is indeed too negligent this time. He knew that the Jing people were powerful, so why didn't he be wary of the Jing people using their boats to seize the narrow land at the mouth of the lake.

"What should we do for the rest of the war?" In the Ming Hall, there is a map of Chen Ying, which is engraved on a wooden board. Looking at Chen Ying's most central royal city, Zhao Zheng couldn't wait to stab the picture with a sword. It's a pity that it's just a plank.

"The minister thinks ......" Tu Sui was advancing, and Wei Yi interrupted loudly, "The minister has a plan." ”

"Speak!" Zhao Zheng's eyes swept Tu Sui, and also glanced at Zhao Shan beside Tu Sui, and finally fell on Wei Sui. Last month, Li Si was recalled, and he only appeared in the Zhengming Hall today.

"Jing people are great armor and great soldiers, do not fight with them, but fight with them; It is not necessary to attack the city with manpower, but to attack the city with the power of heaven and earth. Wei Yi's voice is high, although there are all veterans in the Ming Hall, but when he re-enters Xianyang, he no longer has the humility and politeness he used to be.

"Please teach me, sir, what is the power of heaven and earth?" Like King Zhaoxiang, Zhao Zheng also has times when he humbles himself to seek advice, such as now.

"Jing people have to replenish food and weapons, relying on the East Lake chasm. In that case, why not break the city with water? "Wei Yu said." The minister Wen Lian defended the city, and there were many secret doors on the city wall, so why not divert water to the north of the city and immerse the city. The walls are all made of rammed earth, and if the city is soaked, the foundations of the city will be broken. ”

"Dip City?!" The generals in the Ming Hall were stunned for a while. The veteran Zhao Shan asked: "The terrain in the north of Chen Cheng is higher than that in the east of the city, dare to ask Keqing how to divert water to immerse the city in the north of the city?" ”

"Yes, yes. The water goes to a low place, the east of the city is at the water's edge, the foundation of the city is built of stone, it can not be soaked, although the north of the city is rammed earth, but it cannot lead water. "After nearly four months of siege, Chen Cheng has been engraved in everyone's minds, and there are not a few examples of rushing the city with water and flooding the city with water. If it could soak the city, the Governor's Mansion would have decided to soak the city a long time ago, so why mention it.

The generals questioned, and most of the strategists shook their heads. Wei Yu just didn't answer, didn't refute, and had an unfathomable smile on his face.

"Please teach the widow how to lead water from a low place to a high place and immerse the city?" Zhao Zheng got up and looked deeply at Wei Yi, and Wei Yi actually accepted it without avoidance - he was driven away by the King of Qin for some reason, he was very angry, but he had to come back, because there was no better place in the world except for Qin.

"Haha." Wei Yi laughed suddenly, "The king should ask King Jing how King Jing led water from low to high. ”

"Ahh I know, I know! Someone shouted, "White Dragon Water Wheel, White Dragon Water Wheel!" ”

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"Ahh——!h Chen Yingchengtou, seeing the thousands of white dragon waterwheels that suddenly appeared under the city, Xiong Jing immediately went crazy. Humiliation, humiliation! He could not bear the humiliation of attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son.

But no matter how mad he was, the water of the East Lake, covered with thin ice, was flowing into the waterwheel, and then flowing into the northern city along the ditch. More than 300,000 people have built a canal more than one meter high 350 steps away from the northern city wall. The white earth, full of craters, corpses, and broken flags, regained its original color as soon as it was moistened by the water. The water splashed and the lake eventually flowed into the clogged moat, and then rose little by little.

"Don't worry, don't worry, if it snows heavily...... right Shi behind Xiong Jing comforted. The first month of the new year has passed, and the snow and ice are gradually melting in the fields, and in February, the spring flowers are blooming in Koto, and there is no heavy snow at all.

"What does the Admiral think?" Xiong Jing was crazy, and Lian Po froze. In order to facilitate the Chu army to enter and exit the city, two or three hundred secret doors were dug into the city, and the rammed earth was not resistant to flooding, and now it has been hollowed out.

"Fill the secret door quickly." Lian Po's answer was a little old, and he then confessed: "The minister is guilty, and he should not open more secret doors." ”

"What is the teacher's crime?" Xiong Jing hurriedly picked him up. "If you talk about guilt, you will be guilty. If it weren't for the creation of this white dragon waterwheel, how could the Qin army lead the water to the northern city? ”

"The king is fallacious." Right Shi strongly disagreed. "The king built the white dragon waterwheel, is to relieve the suffering of the common people to irrigate the fields, all the people in the world praise the king, please return to the waterwheel at home, all to the Yingdu thanks. The king benefits the world, the Qin people harm the world, what is the crime of the king! ”

"Report!" The pawn rushed over. "Tell the king, the Qin army sent our prisoners to summon the news, saying that there is an old man standing on the high ground outside the city."

"The deceased?" Xiong Jing didn't know that he had any old people in the Qin camp, he picked up Lu Lijing and saw that there was indeed a person standing at the top of the ditch barrier. The man also had a Lu Lijing in his hand, and when he saw Xiong Jing looking at the mirror, he smiled at this side.

"Wei Yi?!" Xiong Jing involuntarily called out this person's name.

"What does the king say?" Xiong Jing's every word and deed must be recorded by the historians, and the right historian did not hear what Xiong Jing said.

"A slut." Xiong Jing put down Lu Lijing and said disdainfully. Influenced by his courtiers, he also hated Weiren - Weiguo was a remnant of merchants, the ancestors of the Chu people kept the merchants and bullied, plus Wu Qi, who changed the law, no minister did not hate Weiren.

"Haha!" Wei Yi also put down Lu Lijing, he can read his lips. "Jing Wangyan, a slut."

"King Jing's anger is due to Shangqing's flooding strategy." Meng Wu stood at the base level, although he was demoted three times in a row, but there was no look of defeat on his face. "Lian Po is a northerner, I don't know how many ponds there are in Huaishang, there are so many secret doors on the city wall, and the city foundation will collapse after soaking for two months."

"Two months is too long, one month at most!" Wei Yi came with the king's order, and the king of Qin demanded that the city be broken within two months.

"January?" Meng Wu said that the city will collapse in two months, and it is also a blind guess, who can guarantee the collapse of the city in a few months.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu had already thought of a countermeasure, "When the water fills the city base, ask the general to send the dead soldiers to dig the city every night." Even if the city wall does not open the secret door, the city will collapse after 30 days! ”