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Chapter 546 Go around and fight
"Hasn't it been taken down yet?"

Li Qingyuan looked at Hangu Pass in the distance and asked with some boredom.

It has to be said that Qin's military strength and morale were really strong. Facing the overwhelming enemy, they did not lose morale. Instead, under the command of Wang Jian, they fought several beautiful counterattacks.

Currently, there are nearly one million soldiers besieging Hangu Pass, and this is the result after selection.

There was no way. The treatment of Tang army soldiers was too good. At first, those who joined the army were just afraid that Qin would come back and take revenge on them later. But after seeing the treatment of the Tang army soldiers, they immediately turned into crazy supporters of the Tang army.

What kind of family is this! How dare they provide steamed buns for three meals a day?
Because the morale of the Tang army was so high, even though Wang Jian won several times relying on his strong military skills and even launched a surprise attack on the Tang army camp, it did not bring any favorable changes to the battle.

Everyone knows that Cao Cao won the Battle of Guandu by attacking Wuchao and burning the food supplies of Yuan Shao's army. But in fact, even though Yuan Shao lost the Battle of Guandu, his certainty of killing Cao Cao only went from being 100% to being only 95%!

The reason why Cao Cao was able to defeat Yuan Shao was mainly because Yuan Shao suddenly died of illness, and then Yuan Shao was courting death by dividing his troops and territory into three parts and giving them to his three sons, which gave Cao Cao the opportunity to unify the north.

Similarly, although Wang Jian fought several brilliant battles, it had no effect at all on the endless Tang army. Instead, the Qin army itself suffered several thousand casualties.

Every morning when Wang Jian looked at the smoke rising from the kitchen outside, he would wonder if it was foggy!
Thick smoke was floating everywhere within a radius of dozens of miles, and just looking at the scale of the smoke was enough to scare people to death.

Originally, Wang Jian thought that with so many people, they could keep the Tang army busy even if they were just burning firewood. After all, among firewood, rice, oil and salt, it is obvious that firewood comes before rice!

Why were the capitals all located in Chang'an before the Tang Dynasty but were all changed later?
Isn’t it because thousands of years of logging have cut down all the trees in Chang’an and even Shaanxi, causing the originally lush Qinling Mountains to become the Loess Plateau, which is completely unsuitable for human habitation!
However, what Wang Jian did not expect was that the enemy actually used a large amount of coal, which really made him feel numb.

Last time when Wang Jian invaded at night, he ordered his soldiers to bring several stoves used by the Tang army to make fire. After seeing the stove, Gongshu Jia immediately understood the production principle. He also said that this thing can effectively reduce the toxins in coal and improve the efficiency of coal use. If it is widely promoted, it will definitely reduce the difficulty of Qin State to survive the winter several times. It is definitely a good thing that benefits the country and the people.

In fact, humans have long understood that coal can be used for combustion, and compared to firewood, coal obviously has more advantages.

But!
Coal is poisonous!
This can be seen from all the major time-travel historical novels. Not to mention ancient times, even after liberation, there were many news reports of entire families dying due to burning coal, right?
If Wang Jian had been able to get this kind of stove to burn coal in the past, he would definitely be extremely happy. After all, he also wanted the people of Qin to live a good life!

Don't think that all nobles are bastards who exploit the people. Just as there are public servants who serve the people, there are also some good ones among the nobles.

However, Wang Jian would rather not know about this matter now, because if there was no such stove, the enemy would definitely not be able to hold out until winter. But now that he has this stove, the enemy's offensive can continue even in winter.

The Qin State had already handed over all the troops and food that it could send to him, but despite this, Wang Jian still felt a lot of pressure!
There was no way. He was good at protracted battles. If it were Bai Qi, there might be a chance of winning.

Similarly, after five months of siege, Li Qingyuan became a little impatient.

He swore to heaven that it was definitely not because of the scolding from the One Person World and the Urban World!

Millions of people rely almost entirely on the support of the other two worlds for food, drink, and defecation. It’s OK in the short term, but in half a year, hundreds of thousands of tons of food alone have been consumed. Admittedly, the price of these grains is only worth a few billion. If thrown into the financial market, it won’t even make a wave. But you have to know that this is food! Real food! Not a digital game like finance!
Just as the urban world's possession of dozens of tons of gold can leverage the international financial market, hundreds of thousands of tons of food are enough to arouse everyone's vigilance.

"Are you all ready?"

Looking at the surging river in front of him, Li Qingyuan asked Liu Ji.

"My king, everything is ready!"

Following the order, Peng Yue took the lead and jumped into the Yellow River.

Peng Yue, who was born as a pirate, led a group of swimming experts across the Yellow River, and they all carried silk threads on their bodies.

After a group of people swam to the other side, they immediately started pulling the line, and soon the silk line turned into a hemp rope.

Several hemp ropes stood in the air above the Yellow River, and then Peng Yue led his men to start driving piles and tie the hemp ropes up.

Liu Ji led his men to fix the air cushions one by one on the river surface with hemp ropes. Thousands of people worked together, and it only took half a day to build a floating bridge over the Yellow River!
Tens of thousands of troops immediately began to cross the river along the pontoon bridge, while Peng Yue and others had already bypassed Hangu Pass and started building a new pontoon bridge at the other end.

The most common question in ancient siege warfare was why not bypass those strong cities or passes, such as Hangu Pass. In fact, it was only necessary to cross the Yellow River twice to bypass it and then directly enter the Guanzhong Plain.

But!
Although it seems that building a floating bridge is very simple, if Li Qingyuan had not asked future generations to provide him with thousands of air cushions, just building a floating bridge would be enough to bankrupt the national treasury!
What’s more crucial is that people used to be simple, so how did they get food across?

The floating bridge was so shaky and wobbly that many people even fell into the river. There were at least dozens of non-combat casualties.

It's a joke to transport military supplies and food wages through a pontoon bridge!

Wars are mainly fought over logistical supplies, which is why Li Qingyuan was able to rely on the ragtag soldiers he had just gathered to defeat the world's number one general, Wang Jian.

If anyone else used this method to bypass Hangu Pass, they would definitely be beaten by Wang Jian so badly that they wouldn't even recognize their mother.

Someone who can bring unlimited supplies with him?

Li Qingyuan said that if he had not been thinking about mobilizing the combat effectiveness of his soldiers and did not want to destroy the technological development of this world, he would have unified the world long ago!

It took a full seven days for the 400,000-strong army to bypass Hangu Pass and then directly surrounded it!
(End of this chapter)