CHAPTER XXIV
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Zhang Jiashi is not unaware that if a unit occupies a dominant position, its overall combat efficiency may not be high, and even compared with some reasonably allocated troops, there are many gaps in overall adaptability. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoPlease search for the most complete! The fastest updated novel
But I have to say one thing, that is, the efficiency that heavy infantry can play in the defense of the city is indeed very high.
Especially in some relatively narrow passages, although the hoplites armed with iron shields can not be said to be able to control this passage in one shot, it is not so simple for the enemy to gain control of this passage.
And right now, in the passage of the city gate of Cloud City, Gotel can only watch the heavy infantry of the Qin army suppress it step by step, and he has no good way to reverse this situation.
When it comes to one-on-one, Gootel doesn't think that the other party can beat him, but in the current situation, the other party will definitely not fight him one-on-one, because this is not a show of heroism, on the contrary, it is a very stupid action.
No one will give up their advantage to fight face-to-face with the other side on the premise that they have a relative advantage. Not to mention whether you can win if you can win in the case of giving up your advantage, and if you may be easily overturned by the opponent, few people will accept such a thing.
Therefore, at this time, whenever the Qin officers and soldiers advanced a certain distance, the grain trucks that would become obstacles were pulled away, or later, it meant that many Huns or those slaves fell under the blades of the Qin officers and soldiers.
However, soon, after knowing that the plan for clearing the passage of the city gate was quite smooth, Yang Wengzi suddenly thought of a very risky idea, that is, since he was no longer able to surround and kill these Huns in the eastern city of Yunzhong City, it was better to let these Huns become a bait to lure the main force of the Huns who might have been dispatched to launch an offensive against Yunzhong City.
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Yang Wengzi is not a soldier who has not experienced the unification war of the Great Qin Empire, on the contrary, in the war of the Great Qin Empire sweeping the Six Kingdoms, Yang Wengzi participated in a lot of battles, but compared to the famous Li Xin and Wang Jian and others at that time, he was just an ordinary county lieutenant at that time.
Under such a premise, it is naturally unlikely that the history books will describe his deeds more. After all, no historian would waste his energy on a small county lieutenant who was not well known.
After Nei Shi Teng led the army to coerce Han Wang'an to surrender, Yang Wengzi, who was quite young at the time, was appointed as a county lieutenant in a small county in Yingchuan County.
And the brutal war that really made Yang Wengzi see the battle on the battlefield was the war to destroy Wei at that time.
The military strength of Wei at that time, like the extinct Korea and Zhao, can be said to have plummeted.
In 226 BC, Wang Ben led his army to capture the cities of Chu in the Huaishui area, and then went north, but the Wei army was unable to stop the offensive of Wang Ben's army, which was not too strong.
After being defeated by Wang Ben in several field battles, the remnants of the Wei army were either trapped in Daliang City, or retreated to the area of Dangjun, which was later established, and sat back and watched Wang Ben lead his army to besiege the capital of Wei.
Wang Ben tried to lead his army to attack Daliang City several times, but was repelled by the last elite troops of Wei who held the fortified city.
And Wang Ben's troops at that time were not sufficient, strictly speaking, he could not even effectively besiege Daliang City.
Therefore, after requesting Qin Wangzheng to mobilize nearby garrisons for support, Wang Ben began to think of another way to capture Daliang.
After on-the-spot investigation and several discussions, after the follow-up reinforcements arrived one after another, Wang Ben finally determined the tactical policy of attacking Daliang City by water.
The terrain around the beam is flat and the soil layer is deep, which is conducive to agricultural production. In addition, the Central Plains at that time was in a relatively warm and humid climate, due to the influence of the alluvial and siltation of the Yellow River, the rivers around Kaifeng were dense. "There are not only natural waterways such as Jishui, Yingshui, Danshui, Suishui and so on, but also natural lakes such as Nursery Tianze, Pengze and Muze, forming a natural water network area", agricultural irrigation was developed, and the Daliang area became the most developed agricultural rich area in the Central Plains at that time.
After the Wei State moved its capital to Daliang, King Hui of Wei built large-scale water conservancy projects many times and painstakingly operated the water network around Daliang City. The girder waterway is vertical and horizontal, and the shipping is developed. Wei's ships could sail into Han, Chu, Wei, Qi, Lu, Song and other countries, which promoted trade and cultural exchanges between Wei and the countries in the river basin. With huge transportation advantages, Daliang has become a commercial metropolis with developed economy, large population and rich Central Plains in just over ten years.
And because of the dense water network of Daliang City, Wang Ben excavated the water conservancy projects developed by the Wei State for the surrounding areas of Daliang City, such as some artificial canals connecting some large rivers, and poured the water of several large rivers into the lowland where Daliang City is located, and finally staged a famous scene of flooding Daliang through the ages.
When Yang Wengzi led his county soldiers to Daliang City, he was assigned the task of digging a canal embankment.
And in the ensuing flooded battle of the beam, Yang Wengzi was given a scene that will never be forgotten.
It was the early spring, it was the spring flood season, the Qin army braved the rain to build, Wang Ben personally urged, the canal was finally completed, and the spring rain lasted for more than ten days, and the water became more and more powerful. With Wang Ben's order, the embankment broke through the ditch, the flood overflowed, and Daliang City suddenly became a country. The city wall was soaked in water for a long time, and it inevitably collapsed, and the Qin soldiers took advantage of the situation to enter.
At that time, Yang Wengzi led the army of the county soldiers under his command, followed the other robes under Wang Ben's command, boarded the raft of Yiye, and then launched a final attack on Daliang City.
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Taishi Gong said: I am suitable for the ruins of the beam, and the people in the ruins said: "Qin's broken beam, lead the river ditch and irrigate the beam, the city is bad in March, the king asks to surrender, and then destroys Wei." "The speakers all said that Wei didn't need to believe in Lingjun, and the country was weakened and died, and Yu thought otherwise. Heaven ordered Qin Pinghai to be in the sea, his business has not been completed, although Wei has the support of A Heng, how good is it?
Zhang Jiashi saw this record and was very amused in his heart.
Because of the demise of the Wei State, it is not a Xinling monarch and a Heng can be saved, maybe plus the ministers of the Wei Wenhou period, maybe they have the power to return to heaven.
In 247 BC, Wei Wuji sent envoys to the vassal states for help, and when they learned that Wei Wuji had become a general, they sent troops to rescue Wei. Wei Wuji led the combined forces of the five vassal states to defeat the Qin army south of the Yellow River, causing the Qin general Meng Wei to flee in defeat. The coalition forces took advantage of the victory to attack Hangu Pass, and the Qin army closed the gate tightly and did not dare to go out of the pass again. The victory of this joint attack on Qin shook the world with Wei Wuji's prestige, and the guests of all the princes presented him with the art of war, which Wei Wuji compiled into a book, which was later called "The Art of War of Wei Gongzi".
And because of the fiasco in the Battle of Hewai, Lü Buwei, who acted as the state administration of Qin (at that time, King Xiang of Qin Zhuang was very likely to be dead, and King Qin was on the throne at the beginning of his reign, and the state affairs were handled by Lü Buwei. Afraid of Xinlingjun, he sent someone to Wei with ten thousand gold to divide the relationship between King Wei and Xinlingjun, and at the same time sent someone to Wei to pretend to congratulate Xinlingjun on his ascension to the throne, so King Wei was even more suspicious of Xinlingjun, so he sent someone else to take charge of Wei's military power instead of Xinlingjun, and the plan of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin failed.
Disheartened from then on, after returning to Wei, he no longer went to court, indulged in alcohol every day, and died four years later (243 BC). Since then, the Wei State has lost its last supporting pillars, and 18 years later, the Wei State was destroyed.
As for Ah Heng, also known as Bao Heng, he refers to Yi Yin, a virtuous minister during the Shang Dynasty:
After the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, Shang Tang named Yi Zhi as Yin. "Historical Records: Yin Benji" Huangfu Mi Zhuyun: "Yin, Zhengye, it is said that the soup makes it the world." "Positive in the world" is to lead by example, to be a model in the world, and to teach the world. "Shangshu Junshuang" quoted Zhou Gongyu as saying that "Yi Yin Ge is in the emperor", which is on behalf of the heavens. His words are equal to providence, so it can be said that Yi Yin is a teacher of Taishang. He once said: Heaven gave birth to this people, so that the prophet will be aware of it, and the first will be aware of it. And he proclaimed: "To the enlightened people of heaven, to the people of the Daojue, who is not the son of Jue?" ("Mencius, Ten Thousand Chapters"). Yi Yin regarded himself as a prophet and regarded his words as the highest doctrine to educate the people. It can be seen that Yi Yin is the person with the highest authority in the country.
After Shang Tang's death, Yi Yin went through Wai Bing and Zhong Ren, and became the teacher of Taijia, the eldest grandson of King Tang. Legend has it that Taijia did not abide by Shang Tang's general policies, in order to educate Taijia, Yi Yin placed Taijia in a specific educational environment - Tonggong, the burial place of Chengtang, he himself and the ministers ruled on his behalf, known as the republican government, and wrote "Yi Xun", "Wanton Life", "Hou Hou" and other precepts, telling how to govern, what can be done, what can not be done, and how to inherit the law of Chengtang. In the specific educational environment created by Yi Yin, Taijia guarded Tong Palace for three years, remembering Cheng Tang's exploits and self-pity, deep introspection, "benevolence and righteousness", learning Yi Yin's precepts, and gradually realizing his own mistakes, repenting and repenting of goodness. When Taijia had a manifestation of changing evil and good, Yi Yin personally greeted him in Tonggong at the right time, and handed over the royal power to him, and he continued to be Taijia's assistant. Under Yi Yin's patient education, after Taijia was reinstated, he "cultivated virtue diligently" and inherited the politics of Chengtang, and really had a good performance. The politics of the Shang Dynasty were clear again. "Historical Records" said that "the princes return to Yin, and the people are Ning". So Yi Yin wrote three more articles of "Taijia", and one article of "Xian Youyide" praised Taijia. Taijia eventually became a promising monarch and was honored as "Dazong" by his descendants.
In terms of the huge gap between Wei and Qin in 225 BC, what can a Xinling monarch and a Yi Yin do?
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In the flooded Liang, there is a very interesting point, that is, the city of Daliang was not on the side of the Yellow River at that time, and later generations looked at the map and saw the Yellow River flowing through Kaifeng, so it was taken for granted that the Qin army also dug the embankment of the Yellow River.
However......
At that time, the Yellow River did not flow through the Great Liang.
It is recorded that the upper limit of the Yellow River began in the Neolithic period before the 4th century BC (the middle of the Warring States period).
At that time, the lower reaches of the Yellow River flowed through the Hebei Plain and entered the sea on the west bank of Bohai Bay. According to the literature, the Yellow River has flowed back and forth many times, including the three roads recorded in the "Yugong", "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the "Hanshu Geographical Chronicle". The first two rivers are in the west of the Hebei Plain, flowing north along the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, and the lower reaches of the Great River of the "Shan Jing" roughly follow the line of Jinxiong County and Ba County, and enter the sea near the urban area of Tianjin; the lower reaches of the Great River of "Yugong" flow separately from the Great River of the "Shan Jing" in Shen County, passing through the middle of the present-day Hebei Plain, and entering the sea in the east of Qingxian; while the Great River of the "Hejaz" leaves the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, passes through the northeast of Henan, the northwest of Shandong, the southeast of Hebei, and the northeast reaches the border of Huanghua County and enters the sea. Before the middle of the Warring States period, the above-mentioned three rivers were either overlapping or coexisting, and it was common for the rivers to flow through the Hejaz.
In ancient times, "river" was the special name of the Yellow River. According to the records of the Hejaz and the Commentary on the Book of Water, there are more than 10 waterways called "rivers" on the Hebei Plain, all of which may be the original course of the Yellow River after a certain rupture and migration.
Later generations summarized that during this period, the lower reaches of the Yellow River were not built with embankments, the river channels were unconstrained, and the flow was uncertain, or there were multiple rivers coexisting. By the middle of the Warring States period, embankments were built on both sides of the lower reaches, and the river began to be fixed, that is, the Hejaz river and the Shuijing Commentary.
4th century B.C. ~ early A.D. (mid-Warring States period to the end of the Western Han Dynasty). In the middle of the Warring States period, the lower reaches of the Yellow River were sparsely populated, and when the embankment was first built, the distance between the two banks of the embankment was as wide as 50 Han li (1 Han li is equivalent to 414 meters today).
Later, the teeth became more and more numerous, and the large areas of beach land silted out on both sides of the river trough in the embankment were reclaimed, and the people were built to defend themselves, and the far ones were several miles away from the water, and the nearest ones were only a few hundred steps. As a result, the riverbed is pressed, the river body is curved, the siltation is rapid, and the danger is repeated. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the river in Jun County, Henan Province, "the river water is higher than the flat land", obviously has become a hanging river.
This is the result of increased soil erosion in the middle reaches of the Yellow River since the Qin and Han dynasties. The river in the Western Han Dynasty was seriously affected, and there were 10 large-scale overflow diversions recorded in the literature alone. At that time, the north decided to form more than the Dao, and there were Tunshi River, Zhangjia River, Mingli River, etc., which played a certain role in flood distribution. The southeast breach often seizes the Sihuai into the sea, and the disaster in the eastern Henan and Huaibei plains is particularly serious.
For example, in 132 B.C., the river water was decided in Puyang Guzikou (now southwest of Puyang County, Henan) in Dongjun, and the southeast seized Si and Huai into the sea, flooded 16 counties, and compared with the vast areas such as eastern Henan, southwest Shandong, Huaibei, and northern Jiangsu, it became a disaster for more than 20 years. In 11 A.D., the Yellow River broke in the east, and the flood between the river and the Huai River lasted for 60 years.
A.D. 1~10th century (Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty). For nearly a thousand years, the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been relatively stable. There were occasional overruns and no large-scale diversions. The reasons are: first, a large number of nomadic people began to settle in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the Eastern Han Dynasty, returning to farming and pasture, secondary grasslands and shrubs replaced cultivated land, and soil erosion was relatively weakened; second, in 70 A.D., the famous hydraulic scientist Wang Jing carried out a comprehensive control of the overflowing river water at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. A new road was opened up through measures such as dredging blockages, straightening of bends, and construction of embankments and water gates. This new road generally flows through the border area of Hebei and Shandong, and now enters the sea in Lijin County, Shandong. Third, there were many branches in the lower reaches of the Yellow River at that time, either entering the sea alone or flowing into other rivers, which played the role of flood distribution and sediment discharge, so the river channel was stable.
From these records and descriptions, as well as the course of the Yellow River summarized by later generations, the Yellow River flowed north to the south of Taihang Mountain for a distance to the east of Huayuankou in later generations. (To be continued.) )
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