Chapter 16: Counterinsurgency and Implication

"Strange, have the reinforcements of the Qin army arrived?"

A few miles away from the city where Meng Fu was stationed, a huge military camp sat here, and in the middle of the military camp, hundreds of dark red camp tents presented an extremely delicate formation.

Once an enemy attacks, no matter from any direction, the soldiers in this barracks can gather their combat strength and launch a counterattack at the first time.

In the central main tent, the commander of the Zhao army, Wu Anjun Li Mu, looked at the deduction sand table, and moved several flags in a row, and finally frowned and shook his head in confusion.

"It's still not right, if the enemy reinforcements arrive, it is best to take a detour from the rear of our army, and then flank the front and rear······ Could it be that the other side saw through the old man's trap? ”

Li Mu calculated several times in his mind, but each time the results were completely different from the current situation.

The first is the number of enemy troops.

According to the number of Qin army killed in the battle they had cleaned up the battlefield before, Li Mu was basically certain that the elite of the Qin army had lost at least half of it in this battle.

After all, after the end of a war, whether it was Qin or Zhao, there were not a few people who had amputations and 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 vital strength in defense than he had calculated at the beginning.

This is the first variable.

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

Before the start of this war, Zhao Guoming had already sent a small force of troops to destroy the largest batch of grain and grass supported by the Qin army, and the longer the stalemate between the two sides, the more unfavorable it would be for the Qin army.

So at this time, whether the Qin army chooses to forcibly attack or retreat, Li Mu can understand. But the other party chose a seemingly most unreasonable approach.

If there were reinforcements in the future, it would be fine, but Li Mu had arranged the bait for such a long time, but he didn't even have a single prey to take the bait.

"Could it be that there was an accident inside the Qin State?"

Just as Li Mu had a flash of inspiration in his mind and felt that he had grasped a clue, suddenly, an urgent report came from outside the tent.

"Report to the general, the Qin army has retreated!"

"What?"

Li Mu was stunned when he heard this, and then decisively lifted the curtain and walked out of the barracks.

A few hours later.

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

The retreat of the Qin army was far faster and more complete than he had imagined, and even the three cities that had been captured before were abandoned after a simple plunder.

It can be seen that this retreat was also an unexpected situation for the Qin army.

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"Kill !!"

Outside the city of Qingdu, Meng Fu sat in charge of the Chinese army, and Zhang Tang led the vanguard army to charge in formation, and 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, and then Zhang Tang led his troops to smash the Yellow Dragon, and soon controlled the defending soldiers and a kind of general.

When he entered the city, he ordered all the soldiers to be kept in temporary custody, but they were not imprisoned.

Because no matter what kind of rebellion, it has little to do with the soldiers. Even if it is liquidated afterwards, it is unlikely to affect these soldiers.

First, the law does not blame the public.

Second, in the war, the soldiers were the swords in the hands of the generals, although Chang'an Juncheng rebelled, but these soldiers were innocent.

However, the soldiers at the bottom are fine, but it does not mean that the generals at all levels are also innocent.

In such rebellions, the higher the position, the more serious the subsequent culpability.

Therefore, all the generals were strictly imprisoned by the monks, waiting for the king's judgment afterwards.

After the capture of Gyeongdu.

It's only been a day.

Outside the city wall, a defeated army appeared that was fleeing in a hurry, and the leader was Chang'an Jun Chengcheng.

Chang'an Jun Chengcheng's appearance is the same as that of Yingzheng, and he also inherited the bloodline of King Xiang of Qinzhuang, and he is extraordinary. However, at this moment, Cheng Chan is covered in blood and messes, and he can't see the bearing of being a prince and nobleman at all.

"Open the gates, open the gates!"

As soon as he approached Qingdu, Chang'an Jun Chengcheng had already begun to shout wildly.

Chang'an Jun Chengcheng caused a rebellion in Tunliu, and Qingdu was the last retreat he left for himself, which was adjacent to the border of Zhao, and as long as he took a step back, he could escape directly into Zhao's territory.

But it's a pity that Cheng Chan's rebellion completely angered Ying Zheng, so that even if Ying Zheng gave up the three Zhao cities that he had already reached, he would outflank him from the back and completely cut off Cheng Chan's back road.

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

"Traitors are traitors, and they are not caught yet."

With a roar, the central gate opened, and Zhang Tang led his troops to rush towards Cheng Chan.

Cheng Chan's face changed drastically, and he resolutely abandoned the army and fled.

Meng Fu ordered all the rebels to be unarmored and captured, while Zhang Tang continued to chase in the direction of Cheng Chan's escape, and on the way, Zhang Tang led the army to successfully join Wang Qian's army.

The rebellion set off by Cheng Chan and Fan Yuzhi was a joke.

With a mere 50,000 troops, how could it compete with the million-strong army of the Qin State.

Although Fan Yuzhi resisted a little, the news of the Chengcheng rebellion reached Xianyang until the end of the counterinsurgency. Even if you add the time for Wang Jian to rush the whole army, the whole process does not add up to more than three days.

Except for the adult and Fan Yu periods.

The generals and soldiers under the command of the two were all beheaded and captured.

Today's Cheng Chan can be said to have no way to escape, especially under the encirclement and suppression of the 100,000 army, there is no place for Cheng Chan in the entire Qin State.

I thought that catching the adult cockroach was already a sure thing.

And yet at this moment.

Cheng Chan did something that no one expected.

He, Zhao has descended.

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"Bastard!"

Meng Fu, who was taking over the power of the garrison from Wang Qian's army, suddenly heard the news and was immediately furious.

Cheng Chan's betrayal of Yingzheng is actually not worth caring about for Meng Fu and Zhang Tang, after all, in the final analysis, this can only be regarded as a contradiction 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, he surrendered to Zhao, which is an insult to the royal bloodline and a provocation to the dignity of the Qin state.

Sure enough.

The day after Meng Fu received the news of Cheng Chan's surrender to Zhao, a military order from Xianyang reached Tunliu.

"All the centurion and above generals under the command of Cheng Chan and Fan Yuzhi were all executed."

"Centurions and below are stripped of their military positions and titles."

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

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