In ancient times, how many days did it take to dig a well?
If the water veins are shallow, it only takes four or five days to dig to three meters of underground water.
And what about the underground water veins in the Gobi Desert??
Generally, groundwater is dug out at a depth of about fifteen to thirty meters...
This depth, in ancient times, would have taken at least half a month even if we dug around the clock...
How many days can a person live without water?
Ten days... is already the limit!!!
In the dry Gobi Desert, this number will be greatly reduced!
And today is already the fourth day since the water supply in Dunhuang City was cut off...
"Boom!"
Wanyan Kruda punched Shuai An hard...
One month!! Just have to wait one more month!!!
Two months ago, he received a military order to stay in Dunhuang for three months, waiting to receive the 60,000-strong army that had assembled from Almaty. After the army arrived, he would cooperate with General Xianyu Tuomuwei to capture Yumen and cut off the
Liang Guo’s grain supply line.
All of this is just as Wu Qidao analyzed at the beginning, and the other party seems to have seen this in advance and made two arrangements. It suddenly looks like both parties are playing a game of masters! In fact, it is just the opposite...
The reason why both sides' predictions are so accurate is all thanks to one person...
Ridicule the little expert, Yang Hao!!
Of course, here, he is called by another name.
Although his name has changed, his appearance has changed, and even his age has changed slightly, he is still the same stupid, arrogant "Military Minister" Li Yuanqi who is good at ridiculing and leaking secrets.
When he wrote Liang Guo's entire military mobilization, troop deployment, marching route, and "sincere greetings" into letters and sent them to the other party, most of the conspiracies and intrigues on the battlefield had lost their meaning.
The other party only needs to use the information brought back by the secret agent and constantly check the contents of the letter to easily draw two conclusions...
One is that Liang Guo really doesn’t seem to take them seriously!!!
In addition, the other party’s commander is an arrogant idiot!!!
The other party only needs to carry out the most effective and reasonable formation of troops according to the content and route of this letter, and Liang Jun only needs to predict the opponent's prediction in advance.
The two sides are playing a trick!!
And in the end, the only thing left to compete is the combat effectiveness between the two armies and the national strength of both sides!!!
And this!
It's exactly the result Yan Bing wants!!!
No matter it is positive!!
Or an ambush!!!
It will be all right!!!
As long as you are willing to come!!!
What I’m afraid of is that you won’t come!!!
Although Wanyan Kruda in Dunhuang City began to strictly control the food in the city and implemented a military rationing system as soon as he received the order, he never expected that this man guarding countless fresh water resources would
The oasis city is now facing the crisis of water shortage.
Without food, he could kill horses to satisfy his hunger at worst, or even kill people if that didn't work!
But water...where did he get it from?!??
Now all the defenders, even himself, are barely surviving by drinking camel blood, but this is only the fourth day!!!
What’s next??
Drink human blood!!!??
Wanyan Kruda, who has some military knowledge, knows that drinking human blood is worse than leaving a living person to pee. Drinking urine is more practical...
But whether he drinks blood or urine! It is impossible for his army to maintain combat effectiveness for more than half a month...
In two days at most, the army's fighting consciousness will completely collapse...
The thirsty soldiers might even pick up his head and open the city gate, just to have a drink in the river a mile away...
Therefore, there are only two roads left in front of him now.
Or, just fulfill the last duty of a guard! Burn down the granary! Lead the eight thousand soldiers in the city out of the city to fight!
Or, abandon all dignity and surrender in Kaesong...
But if it’s a battle!! The opponent has already set up a posture in front of the city gate, and is holding a crossbow that can shoot up to four hundred strides!!! This is tantamount to leading everyone to death!!!
But if I surrender, what will happen to my wife, children and mother who are still in the new capital of Varo...!!??
Those who are traitors to the country will have their families and children slaughtered!!!
Thinking of the scene of his seventy-year-old mother being pushed to the execution ground, Wanyan Kruda punched Shuai An hard again.
In the end... he could only stand up slowly with a miserable smile on his face. His severely chapped lips caused a few blood stains to be left when he opened his mouth casually, but he no longer cared about these... I saw him using an extremely hoarse voice.
The voice asked softly to his lieutenant: "Do you have family in Xindu...?"
Lieutenant General Necto raised his head and looked at Yan Kruda, then smiled miserably and nodded...
"I understand... let's go together..." Wanyan Kruda looked at Necto and smiled, then walked out of the camp first.
Necto looked at the curtain that was still shaking back and forth and slowly lowered his head. Through the question just now, he already knew the choice Wanyan Kruda made...
When he saw the general sitting on the handsome desk angrily punching his fists without knowing why, he himself was despairing...
He also knew what he would face the moment he followed Wanyan Kruda out of this camp... But did he have any choice?
He wants to cry...
But I can't squeeze out a single tear...
He doesn't want to die...
But I don’t want my relatives to take the blame for me...
He shook his head with a wry smile, held on to the table, struggled to get up, and used his last strength to keep up with Wanyan Kruda...
outside the city,
Tongshun military commander's tent
Yan Bing was sitting in front of the handsome desk, thinking hard about how to better improve the human-powered wind rudder of the hot air balloon.
But after thinking for a long time, besides the hand-cranked propeller before, she really couldn't think of any better way to assist the direction of the hot air balloon's flight... So she stared blankly at this white paper for a long time...
At this moment, a series of rapid footsteps were suddenly heard outside the camp, and then a soldier's voice came through the tent curtain.
"Report——!!! Black smoke suddenly appeared in Dunhuang City!! It seems that there is a fire in the city!!!"
"Full alert!!! Investigate the Xingtian Camp!!" Yan Bing responded through the curtain, then put away the white paper in front of him again, picked up Qingxuan and left the camp, and sure enough he saw the city opposite.
Thick black smoke was rising, and it seemed that the fire was not small!
"What's going on!?? Why is there suddenly a fire in the city??" Lingyue and Wenmiao, who were chatting in the tent next door, also hurried over and stood next to Yan Bing, looking towards the city together.
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"I don't know either. I'm about to ask Xingtianying to explore from the air..." Just as Yan Bing was replying, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "The city gate is open——!!!"
After taking a closer look, he saw that it was a signal soldier. He ran up to Yan Bing, bowed and said, "Report to Duke Ding! The four gates of Dunhuang City are wide open! A man who looks like Colonel Varo is coming with a white flag on his body.
Unarmed! Now tied up and detained by the frontline sergeant!"
Yan Bing frowned slightly, feeling that all this happened a little too fast, and secretly felt suspicious in his heart...
"Report——!!!"
The signal soldier had just stood up, and then another one ran up. He came closer and bowed and said: "I'm reporting to Duke Ding. I'm reporting from the front. Colonel Varo raised the white flag to beg for surrender. He said that the general and deputy general in the city,
They set fire to the granary and then both committed suicide. All the soldiers in the city were willing to surrender!!! I came here to ask the Duke to make a decision!!!"
Yan Bing was slightly stunned when he heard the words, and pondered for a moment... said loudly: "Let the school officer who begged to surrender go back! Send all the Varo soldiers to remove their armor and discard their weapons and walk out of the city! Let the Xingtian Camp go to the city as quickly as possible to conduct a detailed inspection
Detective, report back with a semaphore!"
"Yes!" The signal soldier took the order and retreated.
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Although Yan Bing knew that given the other party's current situation, this outcome would only happen sooner or later, but after all, it was better to be more cautious...
After all, as a modern person, when she heard the word begging for surrender, the first thing that came to her mind was the scene of Zhang Xiu and Boss Cao...
