Chapter 275 Zheng's request
After returning to the camp in the north city, Meng Tian immediately sent someone to invite Zheng State.
"Mr. Zheng Guo, the Daliang city wall has been destroyed. Shao Shangzao agreed to lead my army into the city. He also asked his teacher to use his talents and evacuate the flood outside the city."
The morale in Daliang City had already fallen to the bottom. Meng Tian believed that as long as the Qin army entered the city, the King of Wei had to surrender with a seal and mourn.
Now, it makes no sense to continue to resist.
"Thank you, General Meng, Zheng State is very grateful."
When he entered Meng Tian's tent and learned about Meng Tian's order, Zheng Guo looked happy and bowed.
Wang Ben's original plan was that the Qin army would prepare to enter Daliang City five days after the flood entered the city.
For five days, one day is like three autumns. I wonder how many people in Daliang will lose their lives in hunger and cold. Not to mention, there are still many people in the city who can't swim and soak in the water, so they must be choking.
"Mr. Zheng Guo doesn't have to be too polite. I am the general who led the troops. Now that the fighter plane has appeared, there is no reason to break the city first."
Meng Tian stretched out his hands, helped him with a helping hand, and ordered his personal soldiers to show Zheng State the seat.
Deep in his heart, Meng Tian admires Zheng State's water conservancy knowledge.
After Li Bing and his son passed away, in the huge China Zheng State, no one dared to say that the water conservancy knowledge of Zheng State was second, but no one dared to recognize the first.
Qin not only conquered such Nobel Prize-level talents, but also received reuse. I don’t know if it was the blessing of Qin or Zheng.
"Since General Meng decided to enter the city, the water seed outside the city has now become an obstacle."
Seeing that Meng Tian didn't care about Xu Li, Zheng Guo was slightly stunned. He came back to his senses, his eyes fell on the map, his fingers passed by, and pointed them on a waterway south of Daliang.
"General Meng, please see, the waterways around Daliang are high in the south and low in the north, and each river flows into the river in the north one after another. The water flow of the canal gulf also goes from south to north. Only the Bagan River in the southwest goes south along a narrow valley and flows into the Han River."
Looking along Zheng Guo's finger, Meng Tian did not find any marks of the river.
"General Meng, Bagan River is said to be a river, but it is actually just a stream, and there is no on the map, which is not surprising."
Perhaps seeing the doubt in Meng Tian’s eyes, Zheng Guo explained with a smile.
"No, this is just a trivial matter in Mr. Zheng's eyes, but in my opinion, it is from the Qin army's scouts..."
Meng Tian did not say the word "debt" but just skipped it lightly with the scout negligence.
The plan to siege Daliang was presided over by Wang Ben, saying that the scout was dereliction of duty, and no one would think of the chief general of the Qin army, Wang Ben.
Meng Tian waved his hand lightly and signaled Zheng Guo to continue, but his eyes looked at Zheng Guo with a meaningful look.
Zheng State presided over the construction of a canal to attack Daliang. He probably had discovered this secret Bagan River long ago, but he hid it in his heart and kept silent.
After many years of entering Qin, he entered Yunyang Prison. When Meng Tian secretly rescued him, he survived his life and worked hard to preside over the construction of Zheng Guo Canal.
However, after this incident, Meng Tian could see that Zheng State was in power and Qin State was still reserved.
Perhaps this is the fatal weakness of the Qin court.
The local ministers of the Qin State gradually gave way to scholars from Shandong such as Li Si, and became increasingly far away from the core of power.
Ying Zheng was strong and it was fine when Qin State was growing stronger. Otherwise, once he faced a crisis, these foreign ministers would not have any burden to abandon Qin State.
Zheng Guoshang was excited to save Daliang, but did not notice a sigh in Meng Tian's eyes and warmly introduced his inner plan: "When I built the canal, I specially opened a gate here. As long as I opened this gate, the water flow would go along the Bagan River and leave the surrounding area of Daliang......"
"Mengbao, take people to the gate that Mr. Zheng Guo said, open the gate and drain the water."
After listening to Zheng Guo's introduction, Meng Tian re-examined the map on the table, closed his eyes and thought about the canal and dam built by Zheng Guo, and inexplicably cold sweat broke out on his back.
The water conservancy level of Zheng State is really superb. Meng Tian adhered to the principle of being guarded against others and personally inspected Zheng State's siege, but did not find the secret gate left by Zheng State.
Strictly speaking, this is not called a gate, it is just a dam. As long as you open a hole in this dam, the Qianli Ze Kingdom in front of you will be like a drainage opening in the pool.
Zheng Guo had some thoughts and hoped to drain the flood around Daliang as soon as possible, without a firm heart to be a spy.
Meng Tian couldn't imagine that if Zheng State had a determined heart to die with the Qin army, he would only need to make trouble in the project. Now the one who was swimming hard in the water would be the Qin people.
What Meng Tian didn't know was that it was because he sent someone to shout to Daliang City and rescued the Qianshou of Daliang who had left the city to completely dispel the doubts in Zheng State.
The 40,000 old and weak in the Qin army's refugee camp suddenly faced the surging water flow, and they were bound to be exhausted. Thinking of such a scene, Zheng State was really unwilling to be ruthless.
Han Wangan chose Zheng State to be a spy in Qin, which was really a mistake. Zheng State was not firm enough, not ruthless enough, and was not ruthless enough, so he was born to be a spy.
"Menghu, go and join Li Bi and Luo Jia to arrange the ships and prepare to enter Daliang City."
The ship left by Gongshuchong's raid on the dam is still there, and the ships Meng Tian secretly ordered people to collect can barely carry five thousand Qin troops into the city.
Five thousand fully armed Qin troops are enough to suppress the incomplete Daliang City.
"Jing Su stayed in the camp."
"Manqiang went to prospect."
After receiving Meng Tian's order, Man Qiang smiled happily, ready to do a big fight.
Others may not understand the meaning of prospecting, but he is quite strong and doesn’t understand it?
Daliang City, the heart of the Central Plains, has convenient transportation and developed business, and has settled in many wealthy families in the inner country.
There must be many mines in the homes of these wealthy families.
The mine in Meng Tian’s mouth sounds like Mon Qiang’s ears, which means money.
He didn't know why Meng Tian was called a mine, but after getting used to it, Man Qiang secretly thought in private that the mine really tasted.
I have a mine at home, so I don’t worry.
The generals took the order and left, and they all started working hard.
Zheng Guo sat aside and saw that he and Meng Tian were the only ones left in the military tent. He couldn't help but straighten his body and wanted to speak, but he wanted to speak but stopped.
Meng Tian noticed the strangeness on Zheng Guo's face. While tidying up the bamboo slips on the table, he asked and said, "Mr. Zheng Guo's face is like the weather in June, and it is cloudy and sunny. I wonder if it is wind or rain?"
"General Meng made a joke, but I had an offer in my mind. I wonder if it's appropriate to say it?"
Zheng State has first-class water conservancy knowledge, but the level of ups and downs around the sea is far inferior, and it is written on the face at any time.
"What is appropriate or not, the person who speaks is not guilty, Mr. Zheng Guo has made a statement."
During the Warring States Period, few people lost their lives because they were wrong. After Shang Yang's reforms in Qin State, he did not like poetry and books, nor did he like the high-profile talks of Confucian scholars. However, even if the Confucian scholars wrote books, even if they spoke fiercely, they still lived well in the end.
Speech during the Warring States Period was much more free than in some time in later generations.
With Meng Tian’s encouragement, Zheng Guo was obviously relieved. He was just a water worker, and now he was talking about military affairs, and he felt a little nervous.
"I hope to represent the general and enter the city first and go to the general to surrender to the King of Wei..."
Chapter completed!