At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 205, 30 fire seeds and complete defeat

At this time, Lu Shu of Xu Fan's military camp held a big loudspeaker and said: "Brothers Qin Jun, you can tell us what opera you want to hear. We can make special arrangements. We know that you are under strict supervision, so you don't have to make a sound. I'll do it." Tell us the name of the opera, what opera do you want to listen to, just pause for a moment, and our Han army will arrange it for you."

"'Butterfly Lovers', 'The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl', and 'The Butterfly Lovers', a good 'Butterfly Lovers' has the most people wanting it. We will play 'Butterfly Lovers' later."

Meng Tian immediately said with a cold face: "We can't continue like this. We will launch an attack on the rebels tomorrow!"

Although the base is not high enough or wide enough now, he can't wait any longer. If he continues to wait, he doesn't want to become the clown of the entire army.

At this time, the mound that Meng Tian had piled up was 7 feet high, 3-4 miles long, and the highest point was one foot wide. Three rows of archers could stand on it. Originally, Meng Tian planned to build an archery tower on it to monitor the Han army, but now it looks like Come on, he doesn't have this time anymore.

Su Jiao said worriedly: "Our army built a mountain of earth in front of the Han army. I thought that the Han army would come out to fight with our army, but even now we have not seen the Han army go out to fight. My subordinates are worried that there is fraud in this." "

If the Qin army had the advantage in the field battle, Xu Fan's move would be justified, but it was clearly the Han army that had beaten the Northern Xinjiang army to the point where they could not lift their heads, and now they were allowed to build up ground. There must be something wrong with this.

Meng Tian looked at the Han army camp and said: "We have reached this point. Our army can only take one step at a time. Even if Xu Fan really has a way to solve it, we will force the Han army to fight our army decisively."

After more than ten days of consumption, the Qin army's food supply is now less than half a month old. Now Meng Tian has begun to reduce the amount of food for the soldiers every day.

But many soldiers stood up excitedly and roared: "Don't die, join our Han army and avenge Liang Shanbo."

Facing dwindling rations, even the lowest-level soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army are now aware of the problem. Now it is no longer a question of whether to win against the rebels, but a question of how they can return to Guanzhong alive.

"Why do we still need to study!" The soldiers below groaned.

But they also moved their small benches and left the field, replacing them with soldiers from the next battalion to continue watching.

His voice was so loud that it even reached Meng Tian’s ears not far away. This made Meng Tian's face extremely ugly. He already understood that no matter how he defended himself, he was Liang Shanbo's enemy, and as this opera spreads, his reputation would be infamy for thousands of years.

For example, Xu Fan's "The Book of Getting Rich" tells soldiers how to raise earthworms to raise chickens, how to hatch chickens in a fire kang, and how to compost compost to increase food production. It also tells soldiers to plant soybeans in fallow fields so that they can grow in the next year. There will be a bumper harvest of food from the land.

The daily routine of the Han army soldiers basically consists of training queues in the morning to cultivate the soldiers' military understanding. After all, the number of Han soldiers has almost doubled since the war, and there are a large number of new soldiers who need training.

Coupled with the constant psychological warfare by the rebels, the morale of the soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army was getting lower and lower. Meng Tian could already feel the undercurrent below. If he did not launch an attack, he was afraid that he would be tied up by the soldiers below and sacrificed to the rebels.

Seeing that Zhu Yingtai was about to be buried for Liang Shanbo, the soldiers below burst into tears and felt sad.

Soon "Don't die, join our Han army and avenge Liang Shanbo." became the cry of all the soldiers.

Of course, Xu Fan learned from excellent experience and vigorously promoted 10-a-side football in the military, but after all, it could only be used for entertainment.

The Mohists taught these soldiers how to make tables, chairs and benches, and how to make small waterwheels, threshing machines, windmills and other simple and practical agricultural tools.

After the opera ended, the camp supervisor stood on the high platform and said: "Everyone hates the First Emperor and Meng Tian so much. In order to let everyone remember this emotion deeply, everyone will write a 200-word sentiment to express all their hatred for the First Emperor and Meng Tian." Write it down, and the supervisor will hand it out to you later, and ask each other if you don’t understand the words.”

The opera actors took advantage of this short time to rest and drink water to moisten their throats.

Sure enough, the soldiers would be deeply attracted by the story not long after the opera was sung, especially when Xu Fan changed the background from an academy to a military camp, which made the soldiers feel more involved. Soldiers who watched this opera for the first time did not even He consciously began to look for soldiers with beautiful features, and also wanted to find Zhu Yingtai who was disguised as a man. For this, he made a lot of jokes and punished many soldiers.

The soldiers of the Qin army were busy doing civil engineering, and the soldiers of the Han army were not idle either. First of all, 30 troops gathered in the camp. Doing nothing all day would cause problems. At that time, Wang Jian played Cuju in the army to consume the energy of the soldiers.

It doesn't matter if the soldiers don't understand, just record it down first so that they can practice it slowly when they return home later.

While the soldiers of the Qin army were vaguely listening to the Butterfly Lovers, the soldiers of the Han army were treated much better than them. The opera troupe built a professional stage and made background curtains. One stage was responsible for a battalion of soldiers, which could give the Han army Better audio-visual experience for soldiers.

The story of the Butterfly Lovers has been circulating for hundreds of years, so it is naturally a classic that the people love to hear. Even though the Han soldiers had read it, they were still attracted by this story. They praised it for the wonderful things they saw. They saw Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai being killed by the First Emperor. Breaking up with Meng Tian, ​​he was furious, yelling at the First Emperor, and the soldiers who played Meng Tian, ​​and even wanted to rush to the high platform to beat him. Fortunately, the camp supervisors and others had experience and led other supervisors to stop the soldiers' impulse, so that this man could be allowed to die. The opera continues to sing

In the afternoon, under the leadership of the supervisor, they read, read and write down military rules and regulations, or Xu Fan led some Mohist farmers to teach the soldiers some agriculture or carpentry skills.

To the soldiers of the Han army, Liang Shanbo was just like them. They were bullied by the First Emperor and Meng Tian. They were taught by the supervisors of the Han army that when they were bullied, they should not remain silent or seek short-sight, but should retaliate in kind. to take revenge on one's enemies.

Xu Fan also cherishes this opportunity. 30 soldiers are 30 fire seeds. When they disperse, the advanced technology they learned will bring huge changes to the entire world.

In the evening, they only maintain their weapons and clean up their personal hygiene. Therefore, the soldiers of the Han army are busier than the soldiers of the Qin army. Every day is filled with study tasks. Today, relax, watch an opera and write down your thoughts. Naturally, they are wailing. one slice.

On the other side, under the leadership of Zhang Er, Zhao Wangxie and Wei Wangjiu also followed the soldiers to watch Liang Zhu.

I saw the First Emperor and Meng Tian preventing Liang Shanbo from being with Zhu Yingtai.

Zhao Wangxie shook his head and said: "Although this move by the King of Han can deepen the hatred of the soldiers towards the First Emperor and Qin Dynasty, the spread of these operas will not be good for the King of Han."

Liang Zhu vilified the upper class and encouraged the lower class to rebel against the upper class. This was something Zhao Wangxie was extremely disgusted with, even if it was Bao Qin and the First Emperor who were vilified.

He has a very keen sense of governance and realizes that the spread of this opera is not conducive to the rule of their upper class.

Wei Wangjiu said calmly: "This is just a story. Why should I take it seriously? Our opponents now are Bao Qin and Meng Tian. Stories that can deal with them are good stories."

King Zhao Xie said: "If you don't worry about the long-term, you will have immediate worries. It's better to think more."

Wei Wangjiu said: "Things have to be done one by one. Our biggest enemy is Meng Tian. Let's deal with him first. Back then, the coalition forces had too many wise men and thought too far. As a result, they were intrigues and destroyed the people in front of us. The enemy has been forgotten."

Zhao Wangxie smiled awkwardly and said: "The King of Han has not forgotten his master's original intention, and actually turned the camp into a university hall, but some things can never go back after all. The king of Han is now the master of Han, not the master, and some We should still advise the King of Han on this matter."

Wei Wang Jiu sneered and said: "The Han army is so powerful, it may not be because the King of Han regards all soldiers as students. We defeated and remnant generals should not even think about admonishing the King of Han."

Zhang Er watched as the conversation between the two parties became more and more intense and said: "Mengtian's defeat has been decided. This world is destined to belong to the King of Han, but our Zhao and Wei countries are in the heart of the world, so we must make early plans to deal with the future situation. My lord, It’s not that I want to betray the King of Han, I just want to help you and the Kingdom of Wei.”

Wei Guojiu thought for a moment and said, "As long as it doesn't target the King of Han, it's fine."

Facing the behemoth Han, Wei Guojiu was also worried, but in the end he did not dare to do anything detrimental to Han.

September 37, the th year of the First Emperor's reign.

Meng Tian once again led an army of 180,000 troops to quickly approach the coalition camp.

"Dong dong dong!" The low sound of war drums resounded throughout the world. The pace of the Qin army was still neat, but the shouts of the Qin army soldiers were obviously reduced a lot. They were not as murderous as last time. These soldiers could also feel it. Regarding the plight of the Northern Xinjiang Army, Meng Tian may have been deeply favored by the First Emperor and wanted to repay the First Emperor's kindness with his death.

But ordinary soldiers don't have this idea. Their idea is to fight if they can win, so that they can achieve great achievements, and to surrender if they can't win, so that they can survive.

As for repaying the First Emperor with death, ordinary soldiers had no such idea. They did not feel that the First Emperor had any kindness to them, nor did they think that they had eaten a grain of rice from the First Emperor, nor did they have the idea of ​​risking their lives to repay the First Emperor. Now these The soldier's idea is to end this damn war as soon as possible.

Meng Tian looked behind him. He noticed the weak voices of the soldiers shouting to kill, and he felt helpless in his heart. The effect of the rebels' psychological warfare was far beyond his imagination. This time Meng Tian didn't ask for trouble and talked to the senior officials of the Han army. The senior officials of the Han army were all weak-minded and their curse words were too unpleasant.

Meng Tian waved his hand.

Captain Su Zhe led 5000 Qin soldiers and archers and climbed onto the mound where they had stood for more than ten days.

At the same time, Xu Fan, who was in the Han army camp, saw the Qin army soldiers ascending the mound and smiled: "Now let Meng Tian see our counterattack weapons. Beat the war drums and use stone cannons to smash this damn mound." "

As Xu Fan's order was issued, Colonel Jia Bu immediately led his soldiers to open hundreds of tents facing the mound. Suddenly, hundreds of stone cannons appeared 200 steps in front of the Han army's camp, 300 steps away from the Qin army's mound. It's exactly the -step position.

The rebels ambushed the stone cannon! ! !
Su Zhe looked at the four rows of rebel stone cannons that suddenly appeared in front of him. He broke out in cold sweat and was too frightened to move. No wonder the rebels let them build soil at the entrance of the camp. It turned out that they had already found a way to camp. Waiting for them to fall into the rebel trap.

Move quickly, move quickly! Su Zhe kept screaming in his heart, but his whole body seemed to be frozen. Su Zhe's soldiers saw something was wrong, patted Su Zhe's body and asked: "Captain, what's wrong with you?"

Su Zhe was finally able to move his body.

He shouted loudly: "The whole army retreats, run away!"

After saying that, he didn't even look back and escaped from the mound by rolling and crawling all the way.

But the soldiers around him had never seen Shi Pao, and naturally they didn't know what they were about to face. They were extremely surprised when they saw Su Zhe's embarrassed appearance.

"Get ready to launch!" Jabu yelled.

The soldiers pulled down the long pole, and several soldiers pushed and placed the clay bombs on the leather buckle of the launcher.

"put!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Boom boom boom!"

Hundreds of stone cannons carried the sound of wind and thunder, like thunder. One after another, pottery bombs hit the mounds where the Qin army had worked hard to fortify. The stone cannons roared and flew towards the enemy's position. The ground shook violently, making people feel a huge power. The pottery bomb hit the ground and stirred up dozens of meters of earth and stone smoke, covering the entire mound in thick dust.

At this time, the Qin army who was on the mound was directly killed by pottery bombs if they were unlucky, and drowned in the dust if they were lucky. The huge impact of hundreds of pottery bombs destroyed the mound, causing earth and rocks to fly and collapse quickly.

The soldiers on the mound were even more miserable. Except for a few lucky ones, most of them were buried under the mound. The screams and wails of the remaining soldiers echoed on the battlefield. Dust enveloped the entire mound, and the screams of soldiers kept coming from inside, as if hell was coming.

Only the fast runner Su Zhe and a few hundred soldiers on the edge escaped, but they were also extremely embarrassed. Everyone was covered in dust and fled the mound without wearing their armor.

The Qin Army's hundreds of thousands of soldiers were frightened by this round of stone cannon attacks.

The weapons of the rebels were so terrifying. A mound 7-8 feet high and several miles wide was crushed to pieces, and 5000 people were swallowed up in this way.

Meng Tian was also shocked and speechless by the scene in front of him. No wonder the rebels would let them build up the soil. They had already thought of a way to deal with it. Now that the rebels are destroying the soil in front of the Northern Xinjiang army, Meng Tian had already expected it. How low the morale of the soldiers would be.

This was the direction of the Han army. Lu Shu used a loudspeaker to shout in the direction of the Qin army: "Soldiers of the Qin army. My King Renyi of Han does not want to see you suffer more casualties. You can go to the mound to treat the wounded now. We promise not to fire any more stone bullets."

Su Jiao looked at Meng Tian. The rebels were obviously trying to win people's hearts, but they couldn't really watch their soldiers being suppressed. They wanted to ask Meng Tian what he meant.

Meng Tian said helplessly: "Arrange manpower to treat the wounded."

Su Jiao arranged for hundreds of soldiers and mounds to rescue the wounded and carry out the bodies of the soldiers.

The scene was extremely tragic, with many corpses missing arms and legs, and in the worst cases, only a pile of dirt was left behind. This scene was seen by Meng Tian's hundreds of thousands of troops, and the morale of the soldiers plummeted.

Meng Tian saw the soldiers' faces full of fear and said: "We can't fight today, please withdraw your troops!"

"Dang, Dang, Dang!" Ming Jin's voice sounded, and hundreds of thousands of troops from the Northern Xinjiang Army slowly left the Han army camp.

When the Han soldiers saw the Qin army retreating, the whole camp burst into joy.

Ge Ying smiled and said: "Today Meng Tian and the others are like dogs running away. Meng Tian and the others cannot escape."

Ji Xin smiled and said: "I learned from the soldiers who fled to us that the rations of Meng Tian's army have been reduced by nearly half, and Meng Tian's army can't hold on to the food for ten days. It won't be long before our army will win a complete victory."

Xu Fan said: "The more critical we are at this critical juncture, the more we must be on guard against Meng Tian's dog jumping over the wall. In the past few days, the number of sentries will be doubled, and the number of officers on night duty in each battalion will also be doubled. At the same time, the entire army will be notified to keep their weapons and armor at bay." body."

Ji Xin said: "Why don't the King of Han arrange spies to go to the Qin army's camp to monitor their every move?"

Xu Fan said: "You make arrangements."

Ji Xin said: "No!"

Qin army camp.

After Meng Tian led the army back to the camp, he immediately summoned all the officers of the Qin army who were captain or above.

He said with a cold face: "The attack on the camp has failed, and the morale of the soldiers is getting lower and lower. Our army's food and grass can only last for 10 days. Even if the rations are reduced, it can only last for half a month at most. This time We will plan to attack with all our strength and lead our soldiers to attack the Han camp tonight."

Su Jiao worriedly said: "General, please wait for a day. Today's scene really frightened the soldiers. I am worried that their morale has not been fully restored."

Meng Tian said firmly: "We can't wait any longer. The morale of the soldiers will drop even further if we wait any longer. Then they will tie us up and join the rebels."

She Jian and other captains of the Qin army looked at each other and understood that under the attack of the rebels, the morale of the soldiers was rapidly disintegrating. They were already in a desperate situation, and if they didn't fight, they would really have to wait for death.

Meng Tian pointed to the map of the Han army's camp and said: "The rebel camp is more than twenty miles long and four miles wide. Such a long camp will make it difficult to support the Han army in the end. Judging from the intelligence we have obtained, the rebel camp is about 3 miles long and four miles wide. On both wings are the armies of the puppet king Jiu of Wei and the puppet king Xie of Zhao, each with troops. Our army directly attacks the central tent of the Han army, but these two men dare not support the Han army."

Shejian said with a solemn expression: "General, the Han army is also the most powerful among the rebels. I'm afraid it will be difficult for our army to defeat them."

Meng Tian said calmly: "The purpose is to severely damage the Han army, so that the most powerful Han army will not dare to continue to pursue us, so that our army has a chance to escape. According to this goal, our first priority is to severely damage the Han army's middle road , it is best to kill a large number of Han generals and severely damage the Han army, this is the only chance for our army."

The Han army's weapons and equipment are powerful, with many bows and arrows, stone cannons and other heavy equipment. They have also seen their power, so I plan to attack at night to minimize these external factors and fight against the rebels.

Su Jiao and others did not dare to speak. Although the night attack had many advantages mentioned by Meng Tian, ​​the disadvantage was that it was difficult to command the soldiers. The morale of the Qin army soldiers was already low. Once the situation was unfavorable, they might even collapse.

(End of this chapter)