Chapter 193 The Battle Between the Infrastructure Maniac and the Water Conservancy Maniac, Pang Nuan's Divine Prediction!
Four days later.
More than 100,000 troops marched slowly towards Daliang City from the west.
A group of knights broke out from the military formation and first stationed themselves on the top of Yishan Mountain, more than ten miles east of Daliang City.
Yishan is opposite the main gate of the East City of Daliang City (Yimen).
Standing on the top of the mountain, the entire Daliang City is reflected in Ying Chengxiao's eyes.
But everything in front of him left Ying Chengyu with nothing but heaviness.
In the sixth year of King Hui of Wei (364 BC), King Hui of Wei moved the capital from Anyi to Yiyi in the face of the fierce pursuit of Qin, and built the Daliang City in Yiyi.
Unlike the Qin Dynasty, which took the initiative to attack most of the time, the Wei State has been continuously losing territory in the more than a hundred years since the construction of Daliang City. Therefore, the successive Wei kings paid great attention to the construction of city defense, and Daliang City, as the capital, was even more repaired. Top priority.
Today, Daliang City has a circumference of about fifty miles, a width of about 11 miles from east to west, and a length of about 13 miles from north to south. It has more than 400,000 residents. Although it is built along the river, the whole city presents a relatively regular trapezoid shape.
Meng Wu said in a deep voice: "According to reports from travelers stationed in Wei, the current wall of Daliang City is about five feet high, the base of the wall is about thirty feet wide (69.3 meters), the top of the wall is about seven feet wide (16.17 meters), and there is a wall every twenty feet. Horse face.”
"There are a total of twelve gates in the four directions, including two water gates and ten road gates. There is a curved city (early urn city) outside each road gate."
"According to reports from scouts, after the counterweight catapults entered the battlefield, Daliang City began to continue to thicken the city wall. It is still unknown how thick the city wall is currently."
The base width of Daliang City is 1.66 times that of Xinzheng City, and the top width of the wall is 7 times that of Xinzheng City!
This is simply not the thickness it should be in this era.
If we do not consider the building materials and construction methods, but only consider the thickness and height, the city wall regulations of Daliang City have exceeded the construction standards of the major cities during the Qianlong period.
That's a regulation from more than a thousand years ago!
In today's world, Daliang City is the most solid city, bar none!
Looking at the civilians above and below the city wall who were still busy thickening the city wall, the corners of Ying Chengyu's mouth twitched slightly, and after a long while, he uttered a sentence: "Crazy!"
Facing this important city, what if the Qin army is brave?
The Qin army was like a tiger facing a thick-shelled turtle. Even with its sharp claws, it didn't know where to start.
Meng Wu continued: "In addition to the city wall, there is also a very complicated water system near Daliang City."
"The navy in Daliang City can leave the city along the water gate and launch an attack on our army along the waterway."
"If other countries reinforce Wei, they can also enter Daliang City directly by water."
If Ying Zheng is a maniac for infrastructure construction, then King Wei Hui is a maniac for water conservancy.
King Wei Hui built an extremely complex water transportation network around Daliang City, the most famous of which is the Honggou Aqueduct that connects the Yellow River and the Huaihe River.
The word chasm comes from this channel.
The Chu River and Han Dynasty refers to this canal!
Relying on the Chasm River system, the Wei navy repeatedly repelled the heavy siege troops of other countries.
Facing such a city defense, Ying Chengyu could not help but murmur: "Outrageous!"
Meng Wu said with emotion: "So in the past, Marquis Rang (Wei Ran) sent troops to attack Wei ten times, but they were all blocked in Daliang City. Marquis Ying (Fan Ju) criticized him and said: He attacked Wei ten times without getting hurt."
"Marquis Rang looked at Daliang City and sighed: With 300,000 people guarding the city of Liang Qiren (12.93 meters), I thought it would be difficult to attack after Tang and Wu were revived!"
Meng Wu looked at Ying Chengxuan: "Daliang City is indeed a strong city in the world."
"Even if our army attacks fiercely, King Zhao may not be willing to mobilize the troops facing General Wang to Daliang City."
"Because King Zhao doesn't feel threatened."
Zhao Wangyan would indeed not sit back and watch Wei fall.
But when Zhao State itself was facing a heavy attack, King Yanruo of Zhao would definitely be cautious in deploying troops for reinforcements.
Da Qin's record against Daliang City can obviously significantly increase Zhao Wangyan's psychological threshold.
Looking down at Daliang City in the distance, Ying Chengyu asked in a deep voice: "What if the attacker is not our army, but the flood?"
Meng Wu was slightly startled, then subconsciously looked at the complicated water system surrounding Daliang City, and asked seriously: "General, you want to attack by water?!"
Ying Chengyu nodded: "Not bad."
"The kings of Wei in the past dynasties have been diverting water across the beams and building the water system around Daliang City.".
"The complex water system gives Daliang City thorough city defense and makes Daliang City the world's water transportation center. The profits from water transportation are huge!"
"Of course, the northwest of Daliang City is much higher than Daliang City. Once the water system around Daliang City breaks its banks, Daliang City will turn into a vast ocean!"
Meng Wu frowned slightly: "This strategy will harm Tianhe!"
Meng Wu naturally doesn't care about death and killing.
However, flooding Daliang City will cause a very serious problem, that is, there will be a large number of casualties among the dignitaries in the city.
This is likely to cause the powerful people in the world to have an unprecedented sense of crisis, and more actively promote a vertical alliance to attack Qin together!
This is also the fundamental reason why Bai Qi’s admonishment in the past was not adopted.
Ying Chengyu smiled: "I, Da Qin, have always been a tiger and a wolf in the eyes of all the countries in the world."
"Since I came out of Great Qin, every war in my Great Qin has been regarded as damaging to the peace of the world."
"What's the point of one more game?"
"We, Da Qin, have come so far and have no way out!"
Meng Wu was convinced by Ying Chengyu.
Da Qin's current international relations are already so bad that it cannot get worse.
In that case, what are you afraid of?
Meng Wu suddenly handed over his hand: "The final decision is entirely at the discretion of the general!"
Ying Chengyu nodded happily: "Order!"
"Vice-General Meng Wu leads 30,000 troops to Xinzheng. The State of Zheng is waiting for you here."
"The general intends to dig up the Xingze Dike, Honggou Dike and Neihuang Dike respectively."
"Please let General Meng discuss with Zheng Guo how to do it."
Meng Wu immediately handed over his hand: "Wei!"
After receiving the order, Meng Wu said in a deep voice: "Both the Yingze Dike and the Honggou Dike are within our territory of Daqin."
"But the Neihuang Embankment is on the border of Zhao and Wei."
"If this embankment is excavated, Zhao and Wei will definitely know about it!"
In the original history, Wang Ben dug the Neihuang Dike before flooding Daliang City.
But now, the State of Zhao has not yet fallen into the hands of Da Qin, and Neihuang City is still the territory of the State of Zhao. If you want to dig up the Neihuang embankment, you will break ground on the enemy.
Can Zhao Guo sit back and watch?
Ying Chengyu was silent for a few moments before he smiled and asked, "Has General Meng forgotten the purpose of our army's battle again?"
"I will dig the Neihuang Embankment just to let Zhao Guo know that I will breach the embankment and flood the city!"
"If not, how could Zhao send troops to help?"
Meng Wu suddenly realized, smiled and handed over his hands: "This is the loss of the last general."
Ying Chengyu said in a deep voice: "If reinforcements from the Zhao Kingdom come, General Meng will be the front army to greet the Zhao army."
"General Meng, please fight and retreat. I will immediately send troops to support the general."
Meng Wu said solemnly: "The general will know."
"The general will lead his troops back to Xinzheng immediately!"
Ying Chengyu bowed his hands and said, "General, move slowly!"
Watching Meng Wu go away, Ying Chengyu looked at Daliang City again: "Order! The front army presses forward and the troops are approaching the east gate!"
With an order, the front army accelerated its march.
After a brief reorganization of the army outside Daliang City, Ying Chengxuan ordered again: "Crossbowmen come forward, suppress the crossbow arrows!"
One thousand five hundred crossbowmen quickly charged to a point 250 feet outside Daliang City and formed three formations.
Following Jiang Ming's command, the crossbow arrows flew towards Daliang City like a heavy rain.
Ying Chengyu continued to give orders: "Advance the catapult, prepare to fly rocks!"
Accompanied by the sound of creaking wooden wheels, forty catapults were pushed outside the east city gate.
The tip pole rose up, driving heavy stones to fly into the sky.
As everyone watched nervously, a huge boulder weighing one hundred and fifty kilograms hit the city wall of Daliang City hard.
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, the wall of Daliang City shook slightly.
Wei Wangzeng ran towards the direction of where the boulder landed without hesitation.
"Your Majesty, be careful!"
"Your Majesty, please wait a moment!"
"Pay attention to the sky, keep your eyes on the sky!"
The ministers of Wei State followed Wei Wang Zeng in panic.
But Wei Wangzeng only had the city wall in his eyes!
Finally, Wei Wangzeng ran to the nearest boulder landing point.
Leaning out and looking down, Wei Wangzeng's face became extremely ugly.
I saw several gaps in the thick city wall!
Wei Wangzeng lost his mind and murmured: "Can the Qin army's flying rocks destroy our Daliang City?!"
"Why can it destroy my Daliang City!"
Wei Prime Minister Gao Min and other important ministers of the Wei state also looked at each other in confusion.
Having survived the war, Daliang City held a special place in the hearts of the Wei monarchs and ministers.
Just like people believe that all ghosts and monsters cannot harm the people in bed, the people of Wei naturally believed that the Qin army could not do anything to Daliang City.
But now, this axiom has collapsed!
After inspecting the damage to the city wall, Pang Nuan breathed a sigh of relief and bowed his hands: "Please don't worry, King Wei."
"The Qin army's catapults can certainly damage Daliang City, but the damage is not serious."
"As long as the king continues to recruit Guizhou leaders in the city to consolidate the city wall, the Qin army will have no choice but to defeat Daliang City."
Wei Wangzeng still felt a little uneasy, and was determined to thicken the wall of Daliang City to more than 100 feet!
But facing the foreign ministers, King Wei nodded slightly: "What General Pang said is true, and few people know it."
Pang Nuan bowed his hands and saluted again: "However, the Chang'an Lord of Qin has strange strategies and often has new weapons."
"The foreign minister thought that Lord Chang'an would definitely come up with another strategy after discovering that the catapult had little effect on Daliang City."
"Foreign ministers, please come out of the city and station yourself again!"
Wei Wangzeng frowned slightly: "But I didn't entertain you well, so the general wanted to leave again and again?"
Pang Nuan said seriously: "Your Majesty entertained you so warmly, and I only feel grateful in my heart!"
"But the foreign minister's gratitude is not to be trapped in the city and sing and dance with the king, but to actually help the king to defend Daliang City."
"When foreign ministers leave the city to station, Daliang City can either retreat or defend when attacking. This is the way to defend the city!"
What Pang Nuan said made sense, but Wei Wangzeng didn't listen.
Compared with the benefits brought by Pang Nuan's going out to fight in the city, Wei Wangzeng was more worried that Pang Nuan would take advantage of the opportunity to camp out of the city and run away!
After the efforts of successive Wei kings, the talents in Wei's court were completely withered, and Wei Qi was already one of the top generals in Wei.
Now that a general like Pang Nuan could finally be used by Wei, how could Wei Wang Zeng be willing to let him go?
Understanding Wei Wangzeng's thoughts, Gao Min smiled and comforted: "Although Daliang City is trapped, our cities in the Wei Dynasty are still there."
"The king has sent orders to all the cities, asking the garrison generals of each city to lead their troops back to aid Daliang City. These defenders can all compete with me in Daliang City."
"Please ask General Pang to sit in Daliang City and command the overall situation!"
Pang Nuan shook his head: "Daliang City is strong, and I don't need my personal command."
"The place where this general should appear is exactly outside the city, so that I can have an overview of the overall situation and judge the intentions of the Qin army."
Gao Min's face darkened: "Could General Pang want to leave the city for an excuse and return to aid Zhao?"
"I understand General Pang's eagerness to come back for help, but isn't it too absurd for General Pang to go out of the city to observe Chang'an Jun's intentions?"
"Even if Chang'an Jun has all kinds of talents, how can he threaten my Daliang City except breaking my city wall with a catapult!"
Pang Nuan was upset and asked in a deep voice: "If Chang'an Jun digs the dike to divert water to Daliang."
"What should the King of Wei do!"
Because the First Emperor abolished the measurement unit of 'ren' in the process of unifying weights and measures, people have been arguing about how long one ren is since the Han Dynasty. Later, ren was more often used as a virtual reference, so Cheese chose the statement in the Book of Han that one ren = eight (Qin) feet.
The excavation of Daliang City has not been completed yet. Cheese will directly adopt the archaeological results that have been surveyed. For the unsurveyed parts, Cheese will first use other archaeological results of the same period to fill in, and then use historical data. For example, the structure of the Qucheng of Daliang City refers to the structure of the Qucheng of the north gate of Xinzheng City in the same period. If you readers find any errors, please feel free to tell Cheese. Thank you very much!