Chapter 494 The Enemy Who Can't Wait
"You should rest in my royal city first. I will discuss with the generals tomorrow and then see what it takes to send troops to retake the city."
After Shari Suga said this, he waved his hand to let the city lord go down to rest. The city lord obviously wanted to say something else, but when he saw Shari Suga's impatient eyes, he immediately swallowed the words he said, and thanked Shari Suga and he really went down to rest.
In fact, such a city invasion occurs frequently on the border. The two directions of the Mauryan Dynasty are mountains and seas, but the other two directions are still connected to other places. There are other dynasties here. Although the area and strength are a little worse than that of the Mauryan Dynasty, it is still very difficult for the Mauryan Dynasty to destroy them.
According to Sharishuga's inference, this time the cavalry should not know which dynasty lurked over, but in his opinion, this was a very stupid act. If he wanted to destroy the 20,000 cavalry, he would just send tens of thousands of infantry to cooperate with a hundred elephants, and this matter would be solved.
But what the city lord didn't know was that it was the critical period when Sharishuga ordered the dispatch of soldiers to build warships to fight against the Qin Dynasty. After more than 20 days, the deadline he set was about to reach. By that time, his navy and warships should have the conditions to set off. At this critical moment, if he was asked to send another 50,000 or 60,000 people and elephants to recover the temporarily lost city, he really didn't want to be distracted.
His heart was already occupied by his yearning for the beautiful girl and treasure of the Qin Dynasty. A very remote city was temporarily left in the hands of his not very powerful enemy for a while. He actually didn't care very much. In his opinion, at worst, it would be fine to wait until he had time to let the dynasty that attacked him return it twice as much.
So he temporarily placed the city lord in a mansion and stopped seeing him. He did not discuss this with the generals as he said. Instead, he always understood whether the navy training, warship construction, and food preparation could be completed on time according to his requirements. In this way, half a month passed quickly.
Half a month later, it was already more than twenty days for Han Xin and Xiang Yu to attack here. According to their original idea, within ten days, the army of the Mauryan Dynasty would come to recover the city. However, more than twenty days passed, and there was still no movement. This made the two of them frown a little.
Although their original intention of doing this was to delay a certain period of time and wait for the arrival of the two naval armies, it was based on the ability to consume the other party's vitality. Now that the other party has been reluctant to send troops, they certainly don't know what Shari Saga thought.
If Sharishuga knew the news that the two naval armies had entered the Mauryan Dynasty during this period, the consequences would be unimaginable for Han Xin and Xiang Yu.
But at this time, Xiang Yu and Han Xin were like blind people in the Mauryan Dynasty. They could not send scouts to inquire about this because they did not control the language of the Mauryan Dynasty.
On this day, Han Xin finally couldn't help but summoned the scholars to his own side, and did not let Xiang Yu participate.
"When will you be able to integrate the language of the Mauryan Dynasty?"
Han Xin had a dark face and just asked this question. Obviously, this matter has become something he attaches great importance to now.
"General, don't worry. It's our first time we are exposed to the language of the Mauryan Dynasty. It is also the first time those people from the Mauryan Dynasty have come into contact with the language of my Great Qin. It is very difficult to fully understand the language of the Mauryan Dynasty in less than a month. We..."
After these scholars looked at each other, they stood up with a little courage, but did not directly answer Han Xin's questions, but expressed the various difficulties they faced at this time.
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted ruthlessly by Han Xin.
"If I let this general hear such useless remarks, I will directly send you as a scout to investigate the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty. Compared to my great Qin soldiers, what you do is already extremely relaxed. I will wait for you for another ten days. If you can't understand the language of the Mauryan Dynasty, the next time you attack the city of the Mauryan Dynasty, you will be the pioneer!"
After saying that, Han Xin blew his sleeves and left angrily, leaving only those scholars looking at each other. They all knew that Han Xin was the husband of Ying Gao's sister Yangzi, and he was just cannon fodder sent by the old men of various schools. It was not a wise way to compete with Han Xin, and they were all killing people without blinking. If they said it, they would definitely do it.
This time, after these scholars returned, they immediately put aside their previous opinions and no longer communicated with their own school people. They all gathered together to study the conclusions and achievements they had drawn from each other these days. After a day, they found that the progress was indeed huge.
Han Xin gave them ten days, which was not something he said casually when he was angry, but the conclusion he and Xiang Yu came to. If they could not study the language of the Mauryan Dynasty within ten days, it would be useless to send out many scouts. In that case, they would have to send troops again to attack another Mauryan city and force the army in the capital out.
But of course this is not a very good plan. They only have 100,000 cavalry, and this city cannot be ignored. Split up their troops will greatly reduce their combat effectiveness. Moreover, they don’t know how far away another city is from them.
If you study and understand the language of the Mauryan Dynasty, things will be much easier to handle, so they will naturally know where the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty is. In this case, if you send a scout, you only need to bring one or two scholars who have studied and understood the language to know the big trends of the capital.
Once the two naval armies have news, the shock to the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty will definitely be very great. If they know the news, they will be able to deal with it calmly in this place.
Although Han Xin also knew that it would be a bit difficult to study and understand a language that had never known before in twenty days, he was still a little unwilling to do so without forcing these scholars to do so. After all, Ying Gao was able to send them here from thousands of miles away, which definitely means that their abilities had at least been initially recognized by Ying Gao.
The more than a month of tossing and causing the time that Han Xin and Xiang Yu were most afraid of was quickly passed, but also allowed the letters Han Xin wrote that night to attack the city to reach Xianyang City.
This battle report was even more credited by Lu Jia. It was still between the contact points of the barren land. Lu Jia adopted the method of changing people and horses, running day and night at the fastest speed, which allowed Ying Gao to get the first-hand news so quickly.
"Okay! The first battle was so smooth, and it would be much easier to come afterwards."
The news that Ying Gao received before was delivered a few days ago. Han Xin explained to Ying Gao that the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty was not very far from the end of the barren land, which also forced their plans to make some adjustments in order to cooperate with Sima Xin and Peng Yue's two armies while protecting their strength.
This news still made Ying Gao a little uneasy. He studied the history of China in his previous life, and only had a vague concept of the Mauryan Dynasty. What he thought was that if he had learned more than a little more, he would have directly remembered the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty, wouldn't there be these variables?
However, Han Xin's second letter made him breathe a sigh of relief, and he had more expectations for the combination of Han Xin and Xiang Yu.
When the situation faced was very inconsistent with the original plan, they were able to divide the 100,000 troops into 30,000 as suspicious soldiers to lure the main army of the Mauryan Dynasty. This was definitely something that ordinary generals could not even think of, and they dared not even think of.
Moreover, according to Ying Gao's idea, their plan was almost 90% successful. A dynasty as big as the Mauryan Dynasty was captured by cavalrymen from unknown places. This was something that any monarch could not tolerate, at least Ying Gao thought so.
"Congratulations to you, the first army has achieved such success as soon as it arrived at the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. When our three armies of Great Qin arrive together, the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty will definitely fall into the hands of our Great Qin!"
After learning the news, Ying Gao immediately shared the news with his confidants Meng Yi, Xiao He, Chen Ping and others, because he suddenly announced that he would build a straight road from Xianyang to Bashu and then to the barren land. Although the court officials did not say anything against him, they actually had a lot of opinions behind the scenes. There were not many people in Bashu, so there was no need to say about the barren land.
Although everyone knows that Ying Gao sent three armies to attack the so-called Mauryan Dynasty, no one knows what kind of existence the Mauryan Dynasty can be defeated, and no one can say whether it can be defeated.
Now, the army has not had much time to set off, and coupled with the difficulty of delivering messages, the news that directly attacked a city of the Mauryan Dynasty became even more precious.
Among these people, they know what Ying Gao’s plan is the best, and what Ying Gao wants, so it is Xiao He. So when Ying Gao said the news in front of them, Xiao He naturally had to support Ying Gao. As long as they had a few unified views, they could only say this matter in the court as a big event, and a big event that everyone in the court admired Ying Gao. If the court handled it, there would be no need to say about the people.
"The simplicity of this first city is expected, but if there is a problem that cannot be solved as soon as possible, I am afraid that the more cities we capture, the heavier the burden on Han Xin and Xiang Yu will be! The tasks of the two of them are not as simple and direct as Sima Xin and Peng Yue. If you are not careful, you will lose all the game."
Ying Gao did not say this to them, but it was more like a conversation about himself, but in the hearts of Xiao He and Meng Yi, he was really worried.
"Your Majesty is referring to..."
"If words cannot be communicated, you will not be able to send scouts. You will not know how the other party will respond. In this way, the more cities you capture, the more burden it will be. What I worry about is whether the best among the schools are really as smart as their teachers brag about."
When Ying Gao said this, Xiao He realized that the things Ying Gao had begged for him to do before would have such a great effect.
"The inheritance of all schools of our Great Qin is in them. If they cannot accomplish anything, what they will destroy is the majesty of their entire school. Therefore, these people will do their best to do their best in this matter. Please be content with your worries."
Xiao He represents the civil servants of the Qin Dynasty. To put it more or less, isn’t he representing the scholars of the Qin Dynasty? Moreover, he handled the candidates for this matter himself. If something really happened to the Mauryan Dynasty, his face would be a little unrestrained.
At this point, Ying Gao could only choose to believe his words for the time being. All his plans actually revolve around one thing, that is, they must understand the language of the Mauryan Dynasty. If they cannot understand their language in time, they cannot understand their rules of the game in time. If they keep feeling the stones across the river, when there is no stone to touch in the middle of the river, they will eventually fall into the river. Now, Xiang Yu and Han Xin are undoubtedly in this situation.
"Now the progress of attacking the Mauryan Dynasty is much faster than I had predicted before. In any case, it is very likely that Sima Xin and Peng Yue will have results after they arrive at the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty. In this way, the straight road from Bashu to the barren land should also be put into construction..."
Ying Gao's thinking is always so leaping. He was just worried about whether Han Xin and Xiang Yu could complete their tasks smoothly. At this time, he began to worry about what happened after victory.
But after hearing this, the first reaction was Chen Ping. Because his good partner Lu Jia pursued a bigger life goal, many of Xiao He's affairs eventually fell on him. For example, he is currently responsible for the matter of cultivating straight roads.
Chapter completed!