Dongyang is a plain and wide land located south of Shandao.

Although there are also watersheds around this place, the breadth and density of the waterland marshes are much better than the good roads near Huaishui in the north. At least Dongyang's road to the four directions is no longer a reed-strewn path, but a flat avenue that allows the army to march quickly.

At this time, Dongyang City was in a state of extreme tension, and there were bursts of scolding in the city.

The Qin army is here!

The men in the city were recruited by the county magistrate to take weapons and go to the city to defend against the enemy.

The soldiers from the government were shouting from house to house, and their expressions were very vicious.

In an ordinary house, a woman dressed in coarse cloth was holding a heavy wooden pestle and pounding the grain in the stone mortar.

"Mother, my son says goodbye to you, and I can't serve my mother in the future, so please take care of my mother."

In front of the woman, a man in his thirties had tears in his eyes, kneeling and kowtowing, looking reluctant.

The woman stopped the movement of the grain, put down the wooden pestle, rubbed the swollen and sore arm, and then looked at the son who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "Why did my son say this, when my mother finished cooking the grain, I will eat with you at night." “

Chen Ying choked up and said: "Now the Qin army has reached twenty miles north of the city, and the county duke summoned the men in the city to go to the city wall to defend against the enemy. But the huge Chu State can't stop the Qin army's conquest, and this small city of Dongyang can resist. ”

"I heard that the Qin army was brutal, and the head of the head was credited, and when the son goes, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious and less auspicious, and the head on the neck is difficult to preserve, and the food made by the mother can no longer be eaten."

If it were an ordinary woman, she would naturally be terrified when she heard this, and she hugged her son and wept goodbye.

But the woman laughed and said, "Don't worry, my son, for you will be safe and sound, and if nothing happens, you may be able to come back in the evening." “

Chen Ying was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did my mother say this?" “

The woman smiled and said, "I saw that the county duke recruited men to guard the city wall, thinking that he had the intention of fighting with the Qin people. ”

"But as far as I heard, before Ling Yin fought with the Qin people in Chen Ying, and ordered all parts of the country to send grain to support, but our county prince only sent half of the collected grain to the front line, and the rest was transported to his own treasury. Not to mention that two days ago, he also accepted a concubine, and it is said that the concubine is less than sixteen, which is quite beautiful. ”

"How could such a greedy and lustful county prince have the intention of fighting to the death with the Qin people? I think he will definitely surrender to the Qin army. I heard that the Qin army does not slaughter the surrendered city, and your life will naturally be worry-free. Just go with confidence. “

"That's what Mother said."

Chen Ying was impressed, thinking that most of what his mother said was right, so he left with peace of mind.

The development of facts is also as Chen's mother expected.

When tens of thousands of Qin soldiers approached the city of Dongyang, the Duke of Dongyang County sent an envoy to negotiate with the Qin army to surrender. After getting the promise of the Qin general, the county duke asked Chen Ying and other soldiers to lay down their weapons, happily open the city gate, and surrender to the Qin army.

Dressed in black armor and armed with blades, Qin pawns immediately took control of the entire city. Fortunately, although these Qin people look vicious, they are indeed quite trustworthy and disciplined, and they do not kill indiscriminately, and they are even cleaner than those county guards under the Duke of Dongyang County, and they do not rob or commit adultery, so that the Chu people in Dongyang can rest assured.

However, Chen's mother's words were only half right, and the other half waited for Chen Ying to come home for dinner.

After Chen Ying and several Dongyang people were called out by the county government, they were immediately handed over to the Qin pawns, and were escorted by these indifferent Qin people to the depths of the Qin camp outside the city.

Chen Ying was trembling, he didn't know what he had done, how could a small Dongyang citizen be favored by the Qin people?

After a while, several of them were taken into a Qin military camp tent in a panic.

A burly general of the Qin State with two beards on his chin was sitting in it, looking at them with a majestic gaze.

"You often travel between Dongyang and Huaiyin, and you are familiar with the roads between the two cities?"

The translator standing beside Qin Jiang immediately translated Qin Jiang's Guanzhong dialect into fluent Chu language.

A few Dongyang people had never seen the world, and their lips trembled with fright, and they couldn't even speak.

After Chen Ying calmed down, he saluted and replied: "General Yu, in the past, I traveled between Huaiyin and Dongyang with my uncle in the clan, selling cloth swords and shields, and often walked in two places, and the roads on the way were familiar. ”

Seeing that Chen Ying was quite calm and knew the world better than the others, General Qin couldn't help but nod slightly.

"Very well, then you will stay in the army and be a guide for my army."

"Huh?"

Chen Ying was stunned.

……

After a while, Meng Tian walked into the commander's tent and said to Zhao Tuo, who was sitting in front of the desk and looking at the map, with a clear look: "General, the last general was ordered by the army to find a few people who often travel between Huaiyin and Dongyang, and I have asked them about the situation along the way, and the answers are almost the same, there is no problem. Among them, it is better to wait outside the tent, a man named Chen Ying, who can be the general's guide. ”

"Well, it's been hard work."

Zhao Tuo nodded, very polite to Meng Tian.

Meng Tian shook his head and said: "Since the subordinates are under the general's account, it is natural to respect the military order, so why should the general talk about hard work." ”

Zhao Tuo laughed, stood up and walked to Meng Tian's side, and Wen Yan said a few words.

Hearing Zhao Tuo's modest words, although Meng Tian still looked at the same as a blank face, there was a smile in his eyes.

He was originally a little uncomfortable with Wang Jian sending him to serve as a general under Zhao Tuo.

In the past, when he was in the palace, Meng Tian was a Zhonglang general, and Zhao Tuo was just a little Zhonglang. Now that the identities of the two have been reversed, Zhao Tuo is the general, but Meng Tian has become the captain under him, and this contrast will feel uncomfortable for anyone.

But Meng Tian still nodded and agreed, as soon as it was the order of the general, he Meng Tian was the general of the defeated army, how could he have the qualification to refuse.

The second is that Meng Tian quickly reacted, this is Wang Jian helping him.

Meng Tian led the army to a crushing defeat in Shuize, no matter how many reasons, he finally lost the battle, and he would be punished according to military law.

Wang Jian did not punish him because the war was undecided, but let Meng Tian come to Zhao Tuo's partial division, which made it clear that he wanted to make meritorious contributions.

In this case, how could Meng Tian not know what to do and reject Wang Qian's good intentions?

What's more, Zhao Tuo respected him a lot after that, and often referred to him as Mengjun in private, which made Meng Tian, who had strong self-esteem, feel very comfortable and quickly adapted to it.

Meng Tian didn't seem to have such a strong aversion to becoming Zhao Tuo's subordinate, and accepted it quickly.

Compared with Meng Tian, Zhao Tuo has his own deeper views on this matter.

Wang Jian is old.

This extermination of Chu is Wang Qian's last battle. After this battle, Wang Jian will really retire, so he wants to make some good karma for the Wang family when he is still capable.

Today, he helped Meng Tian and asked him to follow Zhao Tuo to make meritorious contributions. This kind of behavior is enough to befriend Meng's family, if the Wang family is in trouble in the future, with Mengtian's upright character, will he sit idly by?

In addition to planning for the Wang family, Wang Jian may also be thinking about Zhao Tuo by doing this, and he believes that judging from Zhao Tuo's previous performance, he will definitely be able to handle the relationship with Meng Tian. He was giving Zhao Tuo a chance to ease his relationship with Montessori.

After all, Meng Tian ignored Zhao Tuo in the palace before and threw him a face, but someone still saw it and spread it.

Under the circumstance that Zhao Tuo intended to make friends, on the way south of the Qin army to Dongyang, the relationship between him and Meng Tian really made great progress.

The two don't say that they have become friends, but they have been able to get along with each other and have a very harmonious relationship.

"The general sent General Bai Meng to lead his troops to the south side of Shandao to cover this section of the road for our army, and there is no need to worry about being attacked by the Chu people on the logistics grain route within forty or fifty miles."

"But if you go any deeper into the Chu Land, you won't be able to shelter. After our army's grain road is extended, it will definitely become the target of the Chu army's attack. The general needs to think more about this. Meng Tian glanced at the map on the case and gave his hand to admonish.

Zhao Tuo nodded, and what Meng Tian said was no problem.

The biggest weakness of their partial division is the logistics and grain routes, because the Qin army made a detour to the south and lost the advantage of Huaishui transportation, and their army had to transfer men and horses all the way.

Dongyang went to Huaiyin for more than 300 miles, and it took more than 10 days to march according to the normal march, and tens of thousands of soldiers ate horses and chewed along the way, and consumed a lot of grain and grass every day, so their logistics food team was also very large, and the marching speed of the grain transport troops would be slower than that of the army, so it was easy to be attacked by the enemy after being disjointed.

If the Chu army sends people to attack Zhao Tuo's grain and grass, it succeeds. Then the 40,000 Qin army will encounter the danger of running out of food, not to mention collapse on the spot, but it will definitely not continue to attack Huaiyin, and this partial division will be abolished directly.

Grain and straw are heavy, and the most important thing in the matter of war!

Facing Meng Tian's suggestion, Zhao Tuo smiled and said, "What Meng Jun said is reasonable. It's just that he has been going to Huaiyin for more than 300 miles, how can he always be on guard for such a long distance until the Chu army attacks the grain and grass. Rather than exhausting our troops by staying on guard all night, it is better to turn passive into active. Didn't the Chu people come to attack grain? I'll give him the opportunity to raid the grain! ”

Meng Tian immediately came to his senses and said, "The general wants to take the initiative to trap and kill the Chu army, so he only fought the banner of General Qiang on this expedition?" ”

"Yes! If I hit the banner of Zhao Tuo, those Chu troops will probably be more careful, and change to the banner of General Qiang, which must be more confusing to the hearts of the Chu people. ”

Zhao Tuo smiled and said, "Meng Jun, you go and call that Chen Ying in, I want to ask about the terrain of this road to see if there is a suitable place on the road." ”

"Yui."

Meng Tian agreed angrily, turned around in stride, and went to call Chen Ying in.

"Chen Ying?"

Looking at Meng Tian's back, Zhao Tuo suddenly felt that this name seemed a little familiar. But after thinking about it, I can't remember any specific deeds.

"It shouldn't be a celebrity in the Qin and Han dynasties, probably because there are too many people who call babies in this era, and it feels familiar when you hear this name."

Zhao Tuo shook his head.

There are really a lot of people named "babies" in this era, and there are famous babies who are called infants, Xiahou babies, and children.

is not famous, what else can be seen everywhere Wang Ying, Li Ying, Ji Ying......

This Chen Ying's name sounds very ordinary, any Chen man may take this name, and he is not a famous person.

……

Just when Zhao Tuo summoned Chu man Chen Ying to inquire about the terrain along the way.

In the tent of the Chu military camp outside the city of Shandao.

The generals of the Chu army are also holding military meetings.

"Wang Jian really sent a detour to Dongyang, preparing to bypass the water here and take the land of Huaiyin of our army. According to the scouts, there were tens of thousands of people in the division of that road, and they were under the banner of General Pi Qiang. ”

General Jing Tong reported the military information to the generals.

"Qiang, listen to the name is a Qiang? How could Wang Jian send a Qiang man to lead the troops? ”

"It is said that this person is a veteran, who once followed Wang Jian to destroy Zhao Fanyan, and he has quite a lot of qualifications, so we should not be underestimated."

"I see, it's his old subordinate Wang Qian."

"As long as it's not that Zhao Tuo."

After the generals finished discussing the main generals of the Qin army, they talked about the next measures of the Chu army.

"Wang Qian's army gathered in the west of Shandao, and attacked my Huaiyin with a detour, and its number is tens of thousands, and it is invincible, so we should find a way to attack its grain and grass."

"However, as long as the grain and grass of the Qin army are destroyed, there is no need to worry about this road."

No one has raised an opinion on the attack on the grain and grass of the Qin army.

Because they had few Chu troops and Wang Jian had a strong enemy on their side, it was impossible to send a large number of troops to confront the Qin army's partial division and intercept it. But no matter if the other party can't do it, once the Qin army's partial division attacks Huaiyin, everything will be over.

So in this case, the Chu army had only one choice, and that was to send troops to attack the grain and grass of the Qin people.

After Xiang Yan groaned slightly, he glanced at the generals under his tent and said: "Our army can only send 10,000 troops, and I don't know which general is willing to lead the troops to attack the grain and grass of the Qin army." ”

Xiang Yan's gaze wandered between Jing Tong and Qu Mao.

Among the generals of the Chu army, I am afraid that these two people can be alone.

Qu Mao was about to speak, but Jing Tong had already preemptively asked for his life.

He said, "The last will do." In this battle, I should burn the grain and grass of the Qin army, so that the Qin army will not come and go back this way. ”

In order to write the plot better, the first version of Qu Mao was changed to Jingtong.

"Historical Records: Xiang Yu Benji": Chen Ying, so Dongyang Lingshi, living in the county, Su Xinjin, called the elder. Dongyang teenager killed his order, gathered thousands of people, wanted to be long, but there was no application, but Chen Ying was invited. The infant Xie couldn't, so he set up the infant as the chief, and the county got 20,000 people. If the young man wants to establish a baby, he will be the king, and the army will be special. Chen Ying's mother said to the baby: "I am the wife of your family, and I have never heard of the noble people of your ancestors." It's a big name now, ominous. It's better to belong, if you succeed, you have to be a marquis, and if you fail, you will die, and you will not be named by the world. "The infant does not dare to be king.

(End of chapter)