The Qin army led by Meng Tian was in full swing, and the wind blew under his feet. He walked south along the Yingshui coast.

On the way, the scattered Chu army quickly became prisoners of the Qin army.

Meng Tian ordered a small number of tired Qin soldiers to gather prisoners along the way, but the large army did not stop at all.

Meng Tian knows the truth that soldiers are more powerful than others.

Li Bi, who was heading south first, rushed to Yingshang with the Chu army that surrendered to Qin.

Huang Ji, who was stationed in Yingshang, felt completely relieved when he saw the familiar Qin army battle flag.

The boats of Chu State retreated to Shouying along the east bank of Yingshui. Huang Ji directed his soldiers and set up a throwing cart, constantly throwing rock bullets in the direction of Yingshui, scaring the newly defeated Chu army.

The city walls of Yingshang were not strong. When the Chu army commander Pu Zuo attacked, Huang Ji felt a little overwhelmed. The catapult carts carried by the army effectively deterred the Chu army.

The Chu army was frightened by the power of the Qin army's throwing cart and did not attack Yingshang to death. Huang Jicai barely defended Yingshang.

Nearly noon, Meng Tian led his army to Yingshang and patted Huang Ji's shoulder hard on the face.

"Secretly, Captain Huang lived up to expectations. He successfully captured Yingshang and was able to successfully defend it. You should remember the first merit in this battle."

Throughout history, the task of cutting off the enemy's retreat was equivalent to being difficult. During the Liaoshen Campaign, the Tashan Corps that blocked the enemy's rear reinforcements had suffered.

"Thank you, General."

A faint smile appeared on Huang Ji's tired face. As expected, after this battle, he could join the ranks of the Qing and had the right to recruit disciples.

After the greetings, Huang Ji took Meng Tian into Yingshang, first of all, to express his condolences to the soldiers who went south to seize Yingshang this time, and promised his contributions after the war.

The Qin army soldiers went out of Hangu in the east and fought for years, but had no grand dream of unifying the world. They just wanted to make meritorious service and seize titles. As long as Meng Tian implemented the merits of each soldier, he was fair and selfless, and had no major mistakes in using his troops, the morale of the Qin army could be greatly guaranteed.

In the grand unification war initiated by Qin, almost all the Qin soldiers involved could steadily upgrade their titles as long as they were not particularly lucky.

The current military titles have depreciated a lot due to the increase in the number of titles and the degree of cherishing titles.

After inspecting Yingshang City, Meng Tian led Huang Ji, Xishuang, Hu Duo and others to the east wall of Yingshang.

Yingshang is built next to Yingshui. The city wall is not high and there is not even a decent pier.

The calm Yingshui flows quietly. Only when the wind blows, the waves of Yingshui gently pat the river bank.

The Yingshui section facing Yingshang is about a hundred feet wide, or three hundred meters wide, which is much wider than the Yingshui in later generations.

"The Yingshui River is wide enough to make you walk in a big boat. In the future, it depends on the combat effectiveness of the boatman in the Tower."

Meng Tian planned to use Yingshang as the new base of the Qin army to build a water camp in order to launch an attack on Shouying.

Twenty miles south of Yingshang, facing the Huai River, the capital of Chu State Shouying, is on the south bank of the Huai River.

If the Qin army wants to successfully cross the Huai River, it must be able to defeat the Chu army's navy.

"The Chu army's navy wanted to defend Shouying, but this time I failed to go north to Ruyin. I have seen the Chu army navy with my own eyes and was skilled in driving ships, but my morale was low and far less than our army."

When the Chu Navy went north to Ruyin, Huang Ji sneaked into the Chu army, which was considered a meeting.

"Now the general who controls the Chu Navy is Qu Lin, who is the Qu family, is as timid as a mouse and dares not fight to the death. He only wants to rely on Shouying's defense, which is not worth worrying."

Meng Tian looked through Qu Lin's information. Like Li Hongzhang in later generations, this man was afraid that the navy would suffer major losses and was unwilling to invest his strength to fight the Qin army.

"On the contrary, Long Ben, the captain under Qu Lin, dared to lead the army to fight with our army, and was considered a rare powerful general in the Chu army."

After walking along the Yingshui River for a while, Meng Tian asked his personal soldiers to bring a wooden board and draw on it with charcoal.

After a while, a rough Yingshang position map was gradually outlined.

"Li Bi led his army to approach the Huai River. Before our navy arrived, we are not in a hurry to cross the Huai River. Next, except for Huang Ji's troops, the rest of the troops will be busy with one thing and rebuild Yingshang City."

Hu Duo, Xishuang, Zhang Tuo, Meng Hu and others took the map from Meng Tian, ​​looked carefully, and raised their doubts from time to time.

"General, our army is temporarily stationed in Yingshang. Is it necessary to build a city?" Hu Duo asked.

"Yingshang is leaning on the Yingshui River. The Huai River is located in the south, with convenient transportation. It will definitely be a prosperous city in the future. Maybe someone among you will be appointed as the Yingshang Order!" Meng Tian said with a smile.

"Why is the city wall in the east built particularly thick?" In the direction of Xishuang, the lines leaning against Yingshui on the map drawn by Meng Tian were particularly thick.

"This is a need to place a large catapult cart to block Yingshui."

Yingshang is temporarily used as the port of the Qin Navy. The catapult cart on the city wall can be used as a shore defense cannon.

Meng Tian answered the questions of the generals one by one. After winning the battle, he spent more time communicating with his generals, which greatly relieved his tense nerves.

"Menghu, you are the one who presided over the construction of the city."

"Hu Duo, you are responsible for building the dock."

"Xishuang, I'll leave it to you."

"As for Zhang Tuo, you are responsible for the alert."

Since the Qin army was established, many civil officials and censors who followed the army have been in charge of the construction of water conservancy projects.

Meng Hu followed Meng Tian and often built military camps. The level of construction arrangements was comparable to that of later contractors.

The big guy Zhang Tuo dared to fight and fight, but the civil engineering work stumped him. Meng Tian once arranged for Zhang Tuo to build the city wall. Zhang Tuo took the design drawings and looked left and right, but he didn't know how to start.

After noon, the sun gradually slanted westward and the ground was not as toxic and hot.

The Qin army put down their swords and carried the iron turrets and began a vigorous construction movement.

For a moment, the small Yingshang City became a huge construction site.

In the city, the personal soldiers had already cleaned up a clean house as Meng Tian's command center.

This house originally belonged to a small nobleman from the State of Chu. When the Qin army conquered Yingshang, the man fled in a hurry. He thought he had fled to Shouying and cried to the King of Chu.

In the main hall of the house, two desk tables stood side by side. The personal soldiers took out the sheepskin map from the cowhide hood and slowly spread it on the table. The four legs of the map pressed against the cow-shaped copper town.

"Shouying's city is strong and without enough troops, it cannot be defended. It seems that the current King of Chu Fu Chu does not have the courage to set fire to King Zhou."

When Fu Chu launched a coup and became the Queen of Chu, he did not show his talent and strategy, but could only be considered a middle-aged man. Such people enjoyed too much wealth and honor, but did not have the courage to face death.

"At attacking Shouying, should we capture Fu Chu, or expel Fu Chu and continue to use troops?"

Meng Tian's eyes stared at Shouying on the map, and kept thinking in her heart...
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