Daqin Engineers

There is a modern saying: "An army without a soul cannot defeat the enemy." This is the soul of the army.

If an army is only built from material or title, then one day, if the enemy can give more material and higher titles, will it be able to buy the army?

But if this army has a certain spiritual yearning because of the support of its fathers and villagers, it will not be easy to be bought.

This is actually what the ancients said, "He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world", because winning the hearts of the people means getting the support of the people, and getting the support of the people will affect the army.

The Black Armies obviously did not do this when they were still Wei Bing, because the Wei King was unpopular.

In contrast, the Qin army governed the country with legalists and implemented a system of prefectures and counties that gave the people a considerable degree of personal freedom. Coupled with the Qin army's governance in Dalian during this period, the people's minds quickly turned to Qin.

This, in turn, affects the Black Armored Army, so that they will have a sense of honor and pride after winning a battle, and this will obviously affect their combat effectiveness.

Just thinking about it, the ship docked at Heijia Camp.

Just as Shen Bing was down to earth, he saw a messenger step forward and said:

"Lieutenant, please, the general."

Shen Bing only said Yang Duanhe wanted to know more about the battle situation, but this time he guessed wrong.

When Shen Bing came in, Yang Duanhe said happily:

"School lieutenant!"

"The king made me a general and ordered me to prepare 200,000 soldiers for battle."

Shen Bing didn't feel much at first.

The general will be the general, Yang Duanhe can be considered to have a bright future.

But then I think about it... 200,000 soldiers?

Why does this sound familiar?

Shen Bing asked:

"Admiral, does the king order you to attack Chu?"

Yang Duanhe nodded proudly:

"Who else can you attack if you don't attack Chu at this time?"

Shen Bing couldn't help but stunned.

So this history has been changed by myself?

Li Xin should have led an army of 200,000 to attack Chu, but now it has become Yang Duanhe?

Then Li Xin came home with a big defeat, does Yang Duanhe also end in the same way?

If so, does that mean that you will lose your life in this battle...

"School lieutenant, lieutenant?"

Yang Duanhe's call drew Shen Bing back, and Shen Bing hurriedly responded.

Yang Duanhe asked:

"I wonder if the captain has a way to attack Chu?"

Shen Bing was the one who defeated the 10,000 Chu army with three thousand navy troops, so of course he had to listen to Shen Bing's opinion first.

But Shen Bing hesitated at this moment.

He tried to remember how Li Xin lost this battle in history.

The record of this battle in history books is very simple. At the beginning, Li Xin's offensive went smoothly, and he went down to more than a dozen cities.

But whoever doesn’t know it was Xiang Yan’s trick to lure the enemy deeper:

Li Xin's army went deep into the territory of the Chu army and was troubled by the long supply line. The army was divided and garrisoned in order to ensure the supply line. As a result, the main force was surrounded by Xiang Yan...

Supply line?

Thinking of this, Shen Bing said:

"General, an army of two hundred thousand is far from enough to attack Chu!"

Yang Duan and Qi Dao:

"Why did the school lieutenant say this?"

"The Chu army has 400,000, and you were flooded with more than 100,000 and 300,000."

"With two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand, how can it be'far from being enough to attack Chu'?"

No wonder Yang Duanhe felt strange.

The quality of the Qin army has always been higher than that of other countries, even the powerful Zhao army can often be one enemy two...except for Li Mu's northern soldiers.

So according to common sense, 200,000 Qin Army will not have any major problems with 300,000 Chu Army.

Shen Bing replied:

"The general did not know that the terrain of Chu country is mountainous and roads are difficult to navigate, especially in spring and summer, it is rainy, and it is extremely difficult to march and transport grain."

The military is the second most important thing to transport food.

The terrain of Chu State is different from that of Yimapingchuan in the north.

Pingchuan often means that there is no risk to defend.

The mountains and hills of the Chu Kingdom are all dangerous places, and most of the roads are built on the hills, not to mention the windings and twists and turns will be controlled by the mountains... The Chu army can easily use these mountains to block roads.

To solve this problem, the Qin army had to occupy the mountains and hills along the supply line all the way.

If the supply line is short, it is fine. Once the supply line is long, there are loopholes everywhere and a lot of troops are needed.

After hearing Shen Bing's explanation, Yang Duanhe frowned:

"How can this be good?"

"If Chu is really like what the school lieutenant said...200,000 troops are really not enough to attack Chu."

This is not a question of whether the combat effectiveness is strong or not, but a question of how troops will be dispersed.

Therefore, the historical Wang Jian said that to attack Chu with all the troops of the whole country is not to show weakness, but to attack Chu in the real situation requires more troops.

Shen Bing didn't know anything for a while.

It is said that "the soldiers are more expensive but not the elite", but it depends on the situation. In some special cases, "more" is needed more than "precision".

Shen Bing suddenly thought... how did Wang Jian destroy Chu?

Isn't it enough to copy his tactics?

However, this was just a moment, and then I was disappointed soon.

Because Wang Jian used 600,000 troops to destroy Chu, which was three times more than Yang Duanhe's troops.

In addition, Wang Jian was playing with another 600,000 army at the border of Chu State.

It's really fun, and it's still good for the 600,000 army to play, and it will last for several months.

This is actually a psychological warfare and a war of attrition.

Even though the Qin State at that time had gathered 600,000 troops from the whole country.

However, it has destroyed Han, Zhao, and Wei successively, and not only robbed a large number of fertile fields, but also a large number of civilians and prisoners of war.

Although these people and prisoners of war cannot be armed for the time being, they can still do hard labor in farms.

Therefore, there is no shortage of people in the Qin country.

But Chu Kingdom is different...

As soon as Wang Jian's 600,000 troops stationed on the border of Chu State, Xiang Yan was immediately scared to gather all the soldiers from the whole country and urgently enlist adult people to fight.

But in the front line, waiting from the left to the right, Wang Jian didn’t see Wang Jian attacking, and there were large tracts of land in the back of Chu, which needed labor to farm...

Such consumption is definitely not a solution, the Qin army can afford it but the Chu army cannot afford it.

As a result of the consumption, when the harvest next year, the Chu army would starve to death a large area without the Qin army's attack.

Therefore, Xiang Yan could only withdraw the army first, and only returned to face the Qin army after finishing the field.

Recognizing that Wang Jian launched an offensive at this moment... Needless to say, what happened next, the Chu army was defeated, and the Qin army succeeded in destroying Chu all the way through Shouchun.

Although Shen Bing knew Wang Jian's tactics, he couldn't follow suit.

One is because Yang Duanhe's only 200,000 troops is not enough to threaten Xiang Yan to mobilize the whole country.

Secondly, because Yang Duanhe is not better than Wang Jian...

Wang Jian could put soldiers on the border to spend time with Xiang Yan, and Ying Zheng didn't even dare to urge.

It would be different if Yang Duan and Lingbing were the same, I'm afraid that within a few days, Ying Zheng's order came:

"Why stand still?"

"Is the general afraid that the Chu army won't succeed?!"

Therefore, Shen Bing can only think of another way.