Chapter 2029 Fortifications

In order to confuse the Qin army, Meng Heilong can be described as painstaking. The march for several days seemed to be to find a suitable ferry to cross the river, but in fact it was to attract the main force of the Qin army, and then quickly return, leaving behind the main force of the Qin army and recapturing the captured camp. How could the Qin army, which had lost the camp to rely on, be the opponent of his iron cavalry?

On the march in the past few days, along the way he has quietly ordered some troops to choose a place to hide. Then he secretly quietly approached the designated position, and when he turned back, he suddenly crossed the river and caught the Qin army by surprise.

After a few days of marching, Meng Heilong already felt that the time was ripe. He also sent a number of spies to sneak across the other bank, and according to the intelligence sent back by the spies, the Qin army deployed a large number of troops on the opposite bank to prevent the army from crossing the river.

Hearing this, a reserved smile appeared on Meng Heilong's face, his plan was successful. With a stroke of his pen, he let his son Meng Qingshan personally lead an army of 10,000 to continue to advance, but he took 2,000 iron horsemen and quietly turned back.

Meng Qingshan, the son of Meng Heilong, is only twenty years old. But his wisdom was already above his father's, and when the Qin army broke through Luo Weihu's walled city and inflicted a series of blows on the South Vietnamese army, he proposed to use the elite of Longchuan City and cross the river at the same time from the ferries of the north and south. He thought that after a night of hard fighting, the Qin army's combat effectiveness would inevitably be low, and although the Qin army's offensive was fierce, it was absolutely impossible for the strength to be as numerous as Luo Weihu and Xiong Qi said. Exaggerate the number of enemy troops, but to alleviate the sin of their own defeat. With the bravery of the South Vietnamese army, they were bound to be able to retake the camp.

If Meng Heilong listened to Meng Qingshan's words, Chen Sheng would probably be in great trouble. Where his shortcomings were, Meng Qingshan guessed clearly. Fortunately, Meng Heilong was shocked by the fiasco of Luo Weihu and Xiong Qi, and hesitated for a while, so he came up with a bad idea and forgot all about his son's suggestions, so that Chen Sheng had a buffer time of a few days, not only did the combat effectiveness of the soldiers recover, but also completed the integration of tens of thousands of soldiers in South Vietnam, and expanded a new army cantonment and an engineer battalion. It has even built the camp into a real fortification, and now Meng Heilong wants to attack the Qin army, is it only bigger.

After a night of galloping, two thousand iron horsemen had appeared on the river beach closest to the camp of the Qin army. Here, there are 15,000 infantry troops who were hidden by him. All the troops have been assembled, and they only need to wait for Meng Heilong's order to cross the river.

The sky is just getting dark. The other side was quiet, and there was no sign of Qin army activity. Meng Heilong was very satisfied, and he asked the subordinates who stayed behind: "Haifeng, what is the news?" Haifeng led tens of thousands of troops, and cooperated with him, preparing to cross the river from the upstream and flank the Qin army. Now that a few days have passed, I wonder if he has succeeded in attracting some of the Qin army's forces.

The general hurriedly said, "Yes." Yesterday afternoon, the messenger of General Hai arrived. It is said that their army has begun to cross the river, but no trace of the Qin army has been found. ”

Meng Heilong frowned slightly. He ordered Haifeng to march along the river with great fanfare, and the Qin army must discover the traces of the South Vietnamese army in order to attract the military strength of the Qin army, why did the Qin army not react when they saw this?

After pondering for a moment, Meng Heilong asked again: "How is Xiong Qi's side, and what is the current situation of Qin Jun?" Although he could receive reports from his subordinates every day, Meng Heilong was still worried that he would miss something.

"General Xiong still held on to the camp and did not fight. The Qin army did not move, but only built the camp into an earthen city. ”

Meng Heilong nodded slightly, and said, "Let you prepare a bamboo raft to cross the river in a light boat, are you ready?" ”

"It's already done, in less than an hour, fifteen thousand soldiers will definitely be able to cross the river."

Hearing this news, Meng Heilong finally showed a satisfied smile on his face, and said: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and command the river crossing, after dawn, the army must all cross the river!" ”

In the position on the other side of the river, the sleepy Qin army left its post with some joy and some disappointment, and replaced it with a friendly army in high spirits. At least 5,000 infantry troops were stationed in this place, which was a death order issued by Chen Sheng. The 5,000 men were divided into two shifts, taking turns every four hours. Ensure that the combat effectiveness of the Qin army on duty will not decline.

At this time, Chen Sheng and Li Zuoche appeared on the position.

From the news sent back by the secret spies of the Heishui Pavilion yesterday, Chen Sheng had learned that Meng Heilong had led the cavalry to turn back, and it was estimated that at dawn, he would cross the river and launch an attack on the Qin army.

After getting the news, Chen Sheng was very excited, and immediately twitched the troops that could be mobilized to deploy them, giving Meng Heilong a big surprise.

It's just that the main combat army of the Qin army is really a little stretched. Including logistics, there were only 25,000 people heading south. With the addition of 12,000 captives, it was only 37,000. Among them, the number of wounded and sick is close to 1,500. The actual combat strength is only 35,000, but the new captive soldiers, they are not bad if they do not become a destabilizing factor, can they still be expected to form combat effectiveness?

When the construction of the Tucheng and the position was completed, Chen Sheng immediately ordered Li Shen to lead 5,000 new troops to replace the dragon and confront the South Vietnamese army on the riverbank, pretending to be the main force of the Qin army. Such an errand made Li Shen tremble. Although he knew that the South Vietnamese army would never cross the river and fight with him, but in the new army formed by the South Vietnamese barbarians, Li Shen broke out in a cold sweat every time he thought of this. In desperation, he had to take all the guards and lead the army into battle step by step. However, Chen Sheng is not so unauthentic, and after arriving at the place, he also asked Qian Long to leave him five thousand Qin troops, and the old and new armies were mixed together, which made Li Shen feel a lot more at ease.

Even so, the actual combat power that Chen Sheng could mobilize in his hands was only 20,000 Qin troops. This part also allocated 8,000 people to guard Xiong Qi's camp, beware of Xiong Qi noticing the weakness of the Qin army and counterattacking.

Therefore, what was left for Chen Sheng was only 12,000 Qin Army's main combat strength. Those logistic soldiers can only stay in the rear and engage in some non-combat things. But in addition to the main force led by Meng Heilong, Chen Sheng also learned that Haifeng's tens of thousands of troops were also ready to move upstream and would cross the river to fight at any time. Chen Sheng knew the disadvantages of dividing his troops to fight, so he resolutely adopted an attitude of ignoring them, leaving 3,000 people to garrison the camp, and in addition, he sent a new group of engineers to the camp that confronted Xiong Qi and built an incredible fortification. This fortification is like this, the sappers surrounded Xiong Qi's camp and built a two-person high earthen wall, completely surrounding Xiong Qi's entire camp. And that's not all, and outside the camp of the Qin army, the same fortification was also built to surround the camp of the Qin army.