At this time, there was a sudden commotion outside the city, and then someone from the top of the city was heard shouting:
"Water, big water! The flood is coming!..."
At that moment, Shen Bing's head slowed down for a moment. Could it be that the upstream had cut ice to release water?
This can't be done!
The agreed time is one month later!
But after thinking about it, Shen Bing felt that this was normal.
Cutting ice to divert water is not so easy to control.
This would be relatively easy in modern times. Once explosives are loaded into the ice, they can be detonated whenever they want.
But in this era, we almost relied on manpower to cut the ice. If we accidentally cause a chain reaction of the ice layer to crack, wouldn’t it cause the water to fall down?
Shen Bing felt relieved when he thought of this.
Then Shen Bing became excited again. Once the flood came, the Chu army would be finished, and the siege of Daliang would be solved...
At this time, Yang Duanhe hurried over after receiving the report. When he saw Shen Bing, he nodded and signaled to follow him.
Shen Bing didn't dare to hesitate. He put down what he was doing and followed Yang Duanhe to the top of the city.
Climbing to the top of the city and looking down, I saw that the floods outside the city had indeed flooded over. The most obvious thing was the moat. The Guangwu Stream upstream of it had been blocked by Zheng Guo with rocks, but it was still flowing. There was a rippling sound, and it was obvious that water from other directions was gathering into the river.
Looking further into the distance, the Chu army's camp was already in chaos, with shouts and shouts and the neighing of horses. Standing at the top of the city, although you couldn't see the water, you could see the Chu army retreating south in panic.
The Qin army was strict in running the army and did not move much, but it still waved its flags wildly to seek orders.
Yang Duanhe did not hesitate and immediately ordered:
"Take your troops back to the city!"
"Open the city gate!"
The city gate slowly opened with a creaking sound, and then the Qin army poured into the city like a tide.
However, the water flow rose much faster than the Qin army retreated. Soon the water in the moat overflowed the suspension bridge and poured into the city, and it seemed that the momentum was still rising.
In desperation, the sinking soldiers quickly turned around and shouted:
"Trope, wood!"
Although the craftsmen didn't understand what Shen Bing wanted these things for, they still agreed and moved the hemp rope and wood to the city wall.
Shen Bing didn't say much. He took a piece of hemp rope and tied one end to the female wall and the other end to a log, then rolled it down the city... The wood was thrown into the water and floated at the foot of the city wall.
At that moment, several soldiers struggling in the water hugged the wood and stuck their heads out to gasp for air.
The weakness of the soldiers of the Qin army was that they did not know how to swim, and they were heavily armed, so it was difficult to survive in the water. This was a life-saving straw.
When everyone saw it, they immediately understood what was going on, so they followed Shen Bing's example and tied up the logs and planks and hung them down on the city wall.
But some people threw the stick too hastily and hit several heads on the spot with a swing of the stick, which made Yang Duanhe yell and curse.
Fortunately, the water came and went quickly... This was mainly a flood peak rushing down from the upstream. Because the momentum was too strong, it could not change direction at the big bend of Daliang, so it rushed ashore.
After half an hour, the flood peak gradually became smaller.
The Qin troops who had been rushed to pieces entered the city in small groups, but they were all shivering with cold and only had half their lives left. Many corpses were left outside the city.
Yang Duanhe was not angry but happy, because if the Qin army outside the city was rushed like this, what would happen to the Chu army, which was more numerous and had no city walls as strongholds and was all tents? And what about the Chu army's food and grass? What will happen?
Yang Duanhe was right, the Chu army's camp had been smashed to pieces and completely defeated.
Needless to say, the tents were uprooted as if swept by a hurricane. Food and grass were washed everywhere, a bag here and a pile there, and some were washed into the river or loosened and scattered.
From one place, less than 10% can be recovered.
This is only the case in the girder direction.
The focus of the flooding was the main force of the Chu army between Handan and Daliang.
Floods in this area don't just go away once the flood peak passes.
As mentioned before, the river water in the Jinkou area has been frozen and cannot be released, and it accumulates in the upper reaches of Handan.
Originally, because the water volume in the middle and lower reaches was not large, there was no big problem in the storage. But now the water volume suddenly increased, and the water storage doubled and instantly spread to everywhere on both sides of the bank.
At that time, south of Handan was a vast area of Heze.
The Chu army has naval forces in this area. Most of these naval forces are small boats used for ordinary combat. How can they withstand the flood peak? When a huge wave comes, they will capsize and sink, and they will disappear in the blink of an eye.
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As for the infantry, those who can run fast concentrate on the nearby high ground, while those who cannot run fast can only flop around in the gradually rising water... Although most of the Chu army swims, they are still wearing armor in this sudden situation.
Even knowing how to swim couldn't save them.
So in a short time, countless dead and injured corpses littered the field.
Only then did Yang Duanhe order the navy to attack...
The Qin army's navy cannot actually be called a navy. They are just infantry on rafts. Many of them can't even swim and fall into the water and need to be rescued.
If it were at other times, such a navy would certainly not be able to compete with the Chu navy.
But now is not "some other time". It is now when the Chu army has no water and its infantry is flooded.
So the infantry on these rafts were so majestic that they moved down the river in batches. Whenever they saw Chu troops in the water or on the bank, they raised their long halberds and swung them at them...
Yang Duanhe laughed loudly when he saw this scene and praised Shen Bing:
"A stingy man is truly a man of God."
"First the water attacked Daliang, and now the water flooded the Chu army."
"Both the armies of Wei and Chu were defeated by the same strategy of Chefu. This is unprecedented!"
Shen Bing didn't think it was anything, but his subordinates such as Cang, Yao, Ren and others all looked at Shen Bing blankly.
Only then did they realize that Shen Bing had done all this.
A stingy man, a stingy man who only commanded five hundred troops and was also a craftsman, could actually devise such a strategy to defeat two countries in a row.
Among them, Wei State has 200,000 troops, and Chu State plus other scattered troops has at least 300,000 troops...
A total of 500,000 yuan was lost to a coward!
They couldn't believe this but had to believe it, because besides Shen Bing, who else could come up with this method?
Ying Zheng on the other side was also very satisfied with the outcome of the battle.
Although the Qin army also suffered some losses in this battle, some of the fields in Handan were also flooded.
But this is nothing compared to the flooding of 300,000 Chu troops.
After this battle, the Chu army was afraid that its vitality would be severely damaged and no longer dared to counterattack Qin.
More importantly, Ying Zheng thought to himself:
Why water?
Was it water both times?
This reminded Ying Zheng of Zou Yan's Five Virtues theory, who once predicted that the Qin State would have water virtues.
But now Shen Bing used water to conquer Wei twice, and Chu's two major difficulties paved the way for Qin.
Could it be that... as I said before, this Shen Bing is the lucky general of Great Qin? Is it the destiny of Great Qin?