Wuhu Kingdom is the grain production place, and the troops "forcedly recruited" a large amount of grain from Qingshui City. [26nbsp;] However, there were as many as 40,000 troops in the city. Although the amount of these grains was large, they belonged to merchants. The conventional reserves of large households could barely meet the needs of the troops in one month at most. Moreover, there was no forage needed for war horses in the city, and the troops collected all the flowers, plants and leaves in the city.
However, there were large troops of the Qin Kingdom ten miles outside the city, and the enemy defending the city did not dare to go out. The discipline of the regular army was to obey orders. Without receiving the orders, they could not leave the city to fight, nor could they abandon the city and flee. Being stubbornly waited for the orders of reinforcements or military headquarters was indeed the only choice.
In a blink of an eye, Wuhu ** Department sent five generals and transportation teams to send five days. The military headquarters had not received any news from Qingshui City. The senior management of the military headquarters began to worry and immediately sent a liaison officer to lead a small team of soldiers to Qingshui City for investigation. However, the messenger sent from Qingshui City was eliminated by the cavalry troops waiting on the periphery, and the liaison officer outside Wuhu City was resolved by Xu Sancai.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and there was still no news in the direction of Qingshui City. Wuhu ** Department knew that something must have happened, so it sent several scouts to Qingshui City to investigate the situation. As a result, it was naturally annihilated by Xu Sancai and the cavalry outside Qingshui City. It was not until three days later that the military department sent two teams of 100 people to investigate the situation, and soldiers fled back under the rush of the cavalry.
Since the farthest position reached by the scouts was still more than twenty miles away from Qingshui City, the Wuhu ** division could not confirm the situation of Qingshui City. It could only speculate based on imagination that Qingshui City was being besieged, so it immediately reported to the king. The king was immediately furious and originally wanted to attack the Great Qin State, but now it was beaten to the door by the Great Qin State, which made the king angrily curse the military headquarters.
However, judging from the assassination of the seven generals of Qingshui City, the king and general of Wuhu Kingdom both believed that the Qin Kingdom would take advantage of the situation to attack Qingshui City. Qingshui City had hoarded 70% of the troops of Wuhu Kingdom, so of course it could not give up. After fierce debate, the king decided to transfer 5,000 defenders from Bishui City, and then draw 2,000 people from the capital to jointly reinforce Qingshui City.
According to the military's calculations, Qingshui City can be surrounded. The Qin Kingdom should have sent at least 50,000 or 60,000 troops. Without large troops to rescue, it would be impossible to break through the siege and enter Qingshui City. The border city of Bishui City cannot be guarded without soldiers, so it was finally decided to send 7,000 troops to reinforce.
There are only two generals in Wuhu Kingdom now, one of whom is responsible for guarding Bishui City, so naturally he cannot be transferred at will. The other is responsible for guarding the capital, and is the general of the imperial guard. Finally, the decision was made to lead troops to reinforce the army. The plan was decided, and it took another three days of preparation to mobilize people from Bishui City to collect food and grass.
Wang Youcai sent intelligence personnel to Wuhu City and Bishui City. The enemy's mobilization was soon reported to Wang Youcai. At this time, An Jiguo's army also took the opportunity to mobilize 15,000 troops to attack Xiaoyue City. Wang Hu transferred more than 3,000 agricultural reclamation troops from Xiaoyue City in advance because of the information, and is now defending the fortifications of the city wall.
The two emergency intelligence sent to Xu Sancai's office one after another, but he was not in a hurry. He went to the military academy and experienced several wars, which made him very disdainful of the strategies and tactics of small countries such as the chaotic mainland. Not to mention Sun Tzu's Art of War and Thirty-Six Strategies, even the most ordinary military strategy during the Warring States Period might be enough to surround these small countries.
Xu Sancai immediately sent people to secretly mobilize two thousand cavalrymen to a forest thirty miles away from Wuhu City. At this time, the 1,000 people from the Agricultural Reclamation Army had completely destroyed the main road leading to Wuhu City. The road surface of a thirty miles was all large and small. After completing the mission, the Agricultural Reclamation Army had withdrawn from the suspect camp.
After three days of preparation, the Wuhu Kingdom left the city and marched towards Qingshui City along the avenue. There were 7,000 troops, including 3,000 cavalry, and hundreds of large chariots carrying food and grass. The cavalry was leading the way, the prince and two thousand imperial guards were in the central army, and behind them were transport teams and infantry, and the troops lasted for several miles.
Wuhu City is less than a hundred miles away from Qingshui City, but after the troops marched less than fifty miles, they found that the road surface of the main road was damaged, and the cavalry and infantry could barely pass through, but the transport team could never pass through. The trail not only required a long distance to detour, but it was also rugged, narrow and muddy country roads, and the transport team could not pass through at all.
After discussing with the three deputy generals, the eldest prince had to stop the troops and wait for the engineers to rest and recuperate the road. However, the engineers of the regular troops only had simple short shovels and pickaxes, and it was naturally much more difficult to dig and fill the pits. Moreover, the soil dug out of the large pits on the ground was transported to the distance by the agricultural reclamation troops, and the engineers needed to dig the soil from the roadside to fill the pits and compact them.
The troops have always been equipped with a limited number of engineers. This army has only 200,000 troops. After a whole day, it only filled the three-mile road. Moreover, because there are no handy rammed earth tools, the newly filled ground cannot guarantee that heavy transport trucks can pass without barriers.
The eldest prince and his troops could only camp in the wild at night. The pampered prince had never experienced such tempering. Because he was going on a war, the comfortable carriage he had used to sitting in was replaced by a war horse. Although the eldest prince was already a level 1 war division, he was spoiled after all. He finally was impatient with this kind of waiting two days later and ordered a thousand infantry and transportation teams to be left. He led the other troops to rush to Qingshui City first, while the remaining soldiers were left waiting for the engineers to repair the road.
Xu Sancai had been lurking near the unit to investigate the movements of the enemy. Half a day after the eldest prince's troops left, he led two thousand cavalry to attack the infantry and transportation teams left behind. Everything went smoothly. In front of the two thousand cavalry charging in a row, one thousand infantry was vulnerable at all. However, due to the bumpy road surface and the difficulty of cavalry chasing, some of the enemies were allowed to escape.
After Xu Sancai asked the troops to clean the battlefield briefly, he immediately rushed to Wuhu City with 19 elite troops. Zhang Dali then led 1,600 cavalry to rush there, and the last batch of cavalry and dozens of wounded soldiers were escorted to Wuhu City with transport vehicles. According to information, there are only one thousand imperial guards left in Wuhu City, and he wants to take the opportunity to capture the capital of Wuhu Country in one fell swoop.
Xu Sancai's plan was still to mix in with the nineteen elite troops into Wuhu City first, and then cooperate with the cavalry troops to capture a city gate. As long as there was no advantage in the city wall defense, the cavalry troops in his hands were much more than the enemy, so he was naturally confident of taking down Wuhu City.