When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 617 Meng Wu: Young man, times have changed!
In the commander's tent, after appeasing the nobles, powerful men and merchants who had taken the initiative to show their favor to the Qin army, Meng Wu stroked his long beard and couldn't help but feel a little more grateful to Zhang Ji.

I owe that boy another favor!

The 70,000 soldiers of the Wuguan Army and the 30,000 soldiers of the Lantian Camp, a total of 100,000 elite regular troops of the Qin State, faced off against an army composed of soldiers of the old Han Dynasty, retainers, rangers, alchemists, escaped prisoners, and some poor men who were fishermen and hunters. The 50,000 rebels were all for nothing.

And this contribution is indeed of extraordinary significance to Meng Wu.

In a country where the king is a young man and the people who employ him are young men, the opportunities for Meng Wu to make meritorious deeds are really insufficient.

In fact, Meng Wu has enough knowledge about himself. He neither has the ability of his father Meng Ao nor the potential of his son Meng Tian. To the Qin State, which has numerous famous generals, he is like a piece of chicken ribs, with no meat to eat and nothing to throw away. taste.

Therefore, in these years, he has been serving as the guard of important passes on the Qin front line. Xin Sheng was also in the same situation as him.

When the Qin State invaded Han and Zhao, he and Xin Sheng were stationed in Taiyuan County and the other in Wuguan. This is still the case today.

Fortunately, both he and Xin Sheng were content with the status quo. Although Ying Zheng could not give them more opportunities to make meritorious deeds, the rewards they deserved would not be less.

But having said that, who doesn’t want to leave a few more strokes of color in the history books?

Especially Mengwu.

When he thought that future generations might call him the son of General Meng Ao, or the father of General Meng Tian... he couldn't hold back.

Zhang Ji gave him a chance. Although he did not achieve great achievements, he was definitely a significant figure in the history of later generations.

At the critical moment when the Qin Kingdom suffered a sudden severe drought, the Koreans in Xinzheng rebelled, and all the main forces were unable to return to the front line to defend themselves. General Meng Wu led his troops to crush the rebel conspiracy with thunderous force.

Thinking of this, Meng Wu couldn't help but feel a surge of blood in his heart.

However, as the leader of an army, Meng Wu quickly calmed down and was not in a hurry to attack the city. He even withdrew the siege at the east gate of Xinzheng. As the leader of an army, he even went to the shore of Jishui River to fish.

Although Tu Sui, who was dragged along by Meng Wu to fish, was also sitting on a pony and holding a fishing rod, he was not at all interested in fishing.

"General, why don't you attack the city yet? Xianyang should take the rebellion in Xinzheng very seriously. If the rebellion is put down earlier, the king will definitely be very happy."

Ren Xiao on the side was also advising: "Yes, if we put down the Xinzheng rebellion earlier, we can go south to Chu and gain more military exploits from the Chu people!"

"General, let us go to war!"

"Ten days, we can capture Xinzheng in just ten days!"

However, Meng Wu did not agree to Tu Sui and Ren Xiao's request to fight. He just raised the hat to protect him from the sun and continued to lower his head and look at the fish swimming in the water.

These fish in the water were not negatively affected at all during the severe drought. Instead, they became more active, which made it easier for the fishermen to catch them.

"Don't worry, let the fish swim for a while."

Meng Wu watched the fish gathering more and more, and sprinkled some bait in the river. More and more fish not far away smelled the aroma of the bait, and flocked to his location.

Seeing Meng Wu sparing no effort and continuing to spread the bait, Tu Sui secretly complained in his heart. “Using so much bait to make a nest is almost overwhelming the fish, but only a few can be caught. Isn’t it worth the loss?”

And just when Tu Sui was thinking about it, Meng Wu took out a huge fishing net from his bag containing fishing gear and caught all the fish that were almost full.

No, General Co-author, you are not here to fish, but to catch fish?
Tu Sui and Ren Xiao on the side opened their eyes wide when they saw this scene. They seemed to hear the mouths of the fish in the net scolding Meng Wu for not being able to afford it.

Seeing Tu Sui and Ren Xiao's jaw-dropping looks, Meng Wu couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Hahahahaha, you young people still have a lot to learn!"

"Go and help me pick up the fishing net, throw all the fish into the bucket, and I will tell you why you don't have to rush to send troops!"

In fact, after Meng Wu received the intelligence from Luowang and confirmed that the rebels on the opposite side were mainly composed of rangers, alchemists, criminals, fishermen and hunters, he was not in a hurry to attack.

To be fair, no matter how miraculous people in the world spread the story of Kaifang and Zhang Liang's ancestors and grandsons who conspired to rebel, Meng Wu completely scorned the so-called restoration of the country's volunteers formed by these ragtag groups.

All military officers and soldiers know that in single combat, retainers, knights-errant, death squads, and prisoners may be able to defeat regular troops or even elite legions, but in battlefield combat, these rabble are nowhere near one-tenth as good as any elite army.

However, in terms of their ability to escape and hide, these rabble-rousers are far stronger than any elite army.

Throughout the ages, elite divisions have been wiped out without incident, but there has never been a time when a ragtag group of knight-errants was completely wiped out.

So Meng Wu is waiting, waiting for Wei Zhuang and Zhang Liang to recall all the rabble to Xinzheng, and then completely wipe them out in one go!

For this reason, Mengwu deliberately released water when retaking the cities around Xinzheng that had been captured by the rebels, deliberately allowing the mob to escape, so as not to beat them too hard and completely lose the will to fight and dare not flee back to Xinzheng.

Of course, Meng Wu believed that Wei Zhuang and Zhang Liang, who could plan so many conspiracies, were somewhat wise and would not fail to see these conspiracies. However, what would happen even if they did?
This is conspiracy!
Zhang Liang chose the wrong path from the beginning.

If we start from small cities one by one, wander around and attack with the Qin army, and never fight with the Qin army, then we can indeed cause a lot of trouble to the Qin army.

The rebels who held Xinzheng could not afford to lose Xinzheng, which was a fatal blow to the morale of the rebels.

Furthermore, if these temporarily gathered mobs fought against the Qin army in the field, they would definitely not be able to withstand a single drumbeat and would be defeated. On the contrary, they could maximize their combat effectiveness by adhering to the rules in the city.

After several days, almost only scattered mobs were heading towards Xinzheng City. It had reached the point where the Xinzheng rebels were too lazy to open the city gate and all used hanging baskets to let them back into the city. Meng Wu still wanted to continue to endure it. boil.

It wasn't until Zhang Ji's letter arrived that Meng Wu stopped thinking about continuing fishing.

However, before the war, Tu Sui was a little curious. Wei Zhuang obviously understood the principle of gathering the mob in the city to fight the Qin army. But wouldn't this increase the Qin army's damage in vain?
Meng Wu couldn't help but glance at the temporarily built arsenals in the Qin Army's camp. When he thought of the mountains of assembled trebuchet parts improved by the public losers in the arsenal, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

No matter how brave and ruthless you are, what can you do when faced with huge rocks falling from the sky?

Young people, times have changed!

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