The next day, Shen Bing saw Meng Liang flipping through a sheepskin map in his tent.
Shen Bing was a little surprised. During this period of "work", Meng Liang only eats and drinks. When did he learn to read a map?
However, Shen Bing paid no attention to him and just took the document from Meng Huan and signed it.
This is one of the troubles of being a miser.
Things can be done and arranged by Meng Huan, but everything must be reviewed and signed by Shen Bing before it counts.
At this time Meng Liang came up, holding a map in his hand and said:
"Look, stingy man, tell me... how should we attack Wei if we want to send troops?"
Shen Bing glanced at it and was a little surprised. It turned out to be a map of Wei State.
If this map was in modern times, it wouldn't be a big deal. Anyone can have one if they want to.
But in this era... only people like Yang Duan and those at that level could have a map with accurate transportation routes, hydrology, and cities.
In particular, maps of enemy countries are even rarer.
But after thinking about it, Shen Bing realized that it was not surprising. You must know that Meng Liang was the son of his favorite minister Meng Jia, so it was not easy to get a map.
only……
"Zuo Shifu, you held this map upside down!"
Meng Liang was stunned for a moment, then said "Oh":
"I was just wondering why it looked a little awkward, but it was held backwards!"
As he spoke, he turned the map around and his expression remained unchanged.
Shen Bing smiled and said:
"Zuo Chefu, if you don't understand the map, why should you care about the war?"
Meng Liang said "Alas":
"The stingy man doesn't know something. His subordinates really don't want to care about the war."
"But at this time, my subordinates are in the army and there is war at any time, and my father also asked my subordinates to come here to learn how to march and form formations."
"If you can't even understand the map when you go back, then..."
It really sounds like that.
However, Shen Bing knew that he could only believe half of what Meng Liang said, so he didn't take it seriously.
In order to get rid of this annoying Mengliang, Shen Bing turned over the bamboo slips and wanted to answer casually:
"How else to attack? Water attack!"
Meng Liang could not help but widen his eyes:
"Water attack?"
"Why can we attack with water?"
Of course Shen Bing would not answer that in history, Wang Jian's son Wang Ben was the one who flooded the city of Daliang and destroyed the Wei state.
But that would be a few years later, and Wang Ben should still be only sixteen years old at this time...
In the Qin Dynasty, men generally served at the age of seventeen. In special circumstances, when there was an urgent need to use the army, they would do so earlier.
For example, during the Battle of Changping, King Qin Zhao mobilized all men over the age of fifteen in Hanoi County to rush to the front line.
At fifteen years old, and in a time when malnutrition and short stature were common in ancient times, you can imagine that they were almost a group of child soldiers.
The children of the nobles are more free in this regard. They will learn various skills and tactics in military schools and then experience them on the battlefield.
At this time, Wang Ben was probably still studying as a disciple. Soon after, he became a disciple and followed Wang Jian to experience the battle. In a few years, he could stand alone.
It is said that he was only 19 years old when he captured more than a dozen cities in Chu and destroyed Wei.
These are all digressions. Shen Bing signed on the bamboo slips with a pen, raised his head towards the map, and said:
"Daliang City diverts water from the Yellow River and Bianhe River into the city moat."
"Why don't we build embankments to collect water and flood the beams?"
Meng Liang was stunned for a while and then asked:
"Is this plan really feasible?"
Shen Bing replied:
“You’ll know after you try it!”
After saying that, he handed the bamboo slips back to Meng Huan and took Ren out.
Most of the Qin soldiers who came from Xianyang were landlubbers. In order for them to build a pontoon bridge, they first had to learn how to swim, which was really troublesome.
That night, Meng Liang told Ying Zheng exactly what Shen Bing said.
Ying Zheng gasped when he heard this.
Is this really a human being?
He, Wang Jian, Yang Duan and a few others studied for a long time, both the water network and the siege, and finally decided on the plan of using trebuchets to attack the city and pontoons to overcome the water network...
Unexpectedly, Shen Bing overturned all plans with just one casual sentence!
Water attack!
Why can't we think of attacking with water?
Daliang City has been there for more than a hundred years, and the Yellow River and Bianhe River have also flowed on both sides for more than a hundred years.
Everyone who reached Daliang City focused on attacking the city and breaking the water network, but no one thought about water attack!
Ying Zheng immediately sent someone to call Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe.
At that time, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe had already gone to bed. After hearing the king's summons, they immediately put on their regular clothes and hurried over.
Ying Zheng put the map in front of the two of them and asked:
"According to your opinion, is it feasible to flood Daliang City?"
Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe looked at the map carefully and then looked at each other.
After taking a deep breath, Wang Jian replied:
"Reporting to your Majesty, the Yellow River is an above-ground river, and a water attack may be feasible!"
The so-called above-ground river refers to the water level of the Yellow River being higher than the ground.
This is caused by the high sand content in the Yellow River.
Because of the high sand content, a large amount of sand and gravel accumulates at the bottom of the river every year, so the water level of the Yellow River increases every year and threatens to overflow the dams on both sides.
In order to prevent the river from flooding, people on both sides of the Yellow River have to strengthen and raise the dams every year.
As time goes by, the water level of the Yellow River becomes higher and higher... At this time, it is several steps above the ground and is called the Hanging River.
With this height difference, the girders can of course be flooded.
Yang Duanhe continued:
"The king is wise."
"If water floods Daliang City, we won't need to build trebuchets and pontoons."
"Even if the Chu army comes to help, I'm afraid they can only look at the water and sigh with helplessness."
"This is the best strategy!"
Ying Zheng sighed, shook his head and said:
"This plan was not the work of a few people."
Although Ying Zheng is a high-ranking, cruel and murderous person, he does not bother to take credit for others' achievements.
Yang Duanhe was shocked and said:
"Could it be...that this is Shen Bing's plan again?"
Ying Zheng nodded slowly:
"Although I thought this Shen Bing was an extraordinary talent before, I thought he was just good at woodcraft."
"But now, this man's casual words will cause the Wei Kingdom to be wiped out."
"It's not an exaggeration to describe it as a journey through the world."
Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe secretly nodded in agreement. This Shen Bing could already be described as "terrifying".
At this time, Ying Zheng thought to himself:
"If one day we are unable to protect Shen Bing Zhouquan, we will definitely not let him fall into the hands of others!"
There is no need to doubt this, because if a person like Shen Bing is kidnapped by another country one day... will he destroy Qin with just a casual word?
But this is just the worry of uninformed people like Ying Zheng.
If Shen Bing knew this, he would definitely reply with a few words:
"rest assured!"
"It won't be long before the whole world belongs to Da Qin. Where can I, Shen Bing, go?"
"Besides, I don't have the ability to destroy the Qin State with just one sentence!"
"So, there's no need to send someone to protect and monitor and then kill someone in the end, right?"
But what Shen Bing was thinking didn't count.
The next day, Shen Bing discovered that Meng Liang's personal guards had suddenly tripled to 200.