Chapter 69 Han Chuan’s “One Hundred Thousand Soldiers”
Several of Han Chuan's followers looked at Han Chuan with strange expressions. For a moment, they didn't know what Han Chuan meant by "found it." They saw that Han Chuan had been observing back and forth by the river, and from time to time
He waded into the river to test. After testing for a while, Han Chuan left the river and walked towards the pass, and several followers had to follow.
When Han Chuan walked three or four miles away from the riverside where he had previously observed, he stopped and began to observe around a gourd-shaped basin surrounded by two mountains.
It wasn't until his body protected by a bamboo hat and raincoat got wet from the rain that Han Chuan returned to his guards with satisfaction.
"General Han, I wonder what you are measuring? Is it possible that what you are doing has something to do with conquering the current pass?" A guard couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked.
"Well, I'm going to summon 100,000 soldiers here to break through the pass of the South Vietnamese Army." Han Chuan looked at the terrain in front of him and confidently said to the guard who asked the question.
"General Han, I don't understand what you are saying. Now we only have more than 10,000 troops. How can we get 100,000 troops?" Another guard looked at Han Chuan and said in confusion.
"I said there must be," Han Chuan said firmly without any explanation.
"Go and pass on my order. Leave a thousand people to guard the camp. The rest of the people will gather here with camp building tools such as grass and other camp tools." Han Chuan asked this man who was confused about what he said about the 100,000 soldiers to go and pass on the order.
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"Nuo" followed the order and left.
An hour later, tens of thousands of soldiers wearing bamboo hats and raincoats rushed to the basin where Han Chuan was located. And what these soldiers held in their hands were no longer weapons, but various farm tools, including grass and bamboo.
A farm tool similar to a pickaxe).
"Soldiers, I want to build a three-meter-high river dam here." Han Chuan said to a group of commanders of the unified army.
After hearing what Han Chuan said, the captains all showed expressions of disbelief.
"General Han, why do you want to build a dam here?" a captain asked doubtfully.
"Yes, General Han, if there is water here, we really don't understand the meaning of building a dam here."
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Seeing that the captains were confused about his decision to build the dam, Han Chuan began to explain to the captains why he had asked them to build the dam.
"Generals, there is a river three miles away from here. I went to check it out. It is not difficult to divert the river water to this place. If a dam is built here, the diverted river water and the help of the rain will not be used.
In a few days, there will be a pool of water here. If I order people to dig out this dam at that time, where will this huge flood go?"
After Han Chuan finished speaking, he looked at everyone expectantly.
After thinking for a moment, the Lieutenant Huben who asked the question before figured out the strategy behind Hanchuan's dam building.
"General Han, do you mean to use the water collected here to flood the South Vietnamese Army pass?" the Huben military colonel asked, pointing to the gourd-shaped basin in front of him.
Han Chuan smiled and nodded.
After listening to the conversation between the two Han Chuan, the few captains next to them understood Han Chuan's plan instantly, and they all deduced Han Chuan's plan in their hearts according to Han Chuan's plan.
After a while, all the lieutenants surrounding Han Chuan had finished their deductions. Everyone looked at Han Chuan with admiration. It was obvious that everyone was very satisfied with Han Chuan's plan.
"General Han, this is a brilliant plan, I admire you." One of the captains praised him.
Others nodded in agreement.
After understanding Han Chuan's plan, these captains led their soldiers straight to the basin pointed by Han Chuan and worked hard to build the river dam.
In just three days, Han Chuan's soldiers built a dam more than 20 meters long in the narrow part of the gourd-shaped basin.
After the embankment was built, Han Chuan divided all the soldiers into two groups. One group followed him to reconstruct the river course, while the other group, led by a lieutenant, went to repair the channel for the flood to flow to the pass and build the embankment.
Seven or eight gaps at the pass that could divert flood water were blocked.
Just when Han Chuan led his troops to block the river and build a dam, spies sent from the South Vietnam Pass found out what Han Chuan was doing.
When the South Vietnamese general Mi Feng learned about Han Chuan's dam-building behavior, he was a little confused for a while. He really couldn't figure out the intention of the Qin army to build the dam in the rain, so he summoned all the generals guarding the pass to the Guanfang meeting hall.
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When all the subordinates gathered in the meeting hall, Mi Feng told everyone what the spies had discovered.
"This Qin army left us alone and instead went to dig earth and build a dam. It's really weird. I really can't understand what this Qin army is trying to do?" Mi Feng sighed as he looked at the generals.
"General Mi, why did the Qin army build a dam? Could it be that they wanted to store water to submerge us? As far as I know, the nearest river to our pass is the Nanhe River, but the Nanhe River is ten miles away from our pass. The Qin army
Do we need to dig a river to divert the water from the South River to the dam they built, and then flood us?" One of the subordinates joked with a smile.
"Ha ha……"
After hearing the general's joking words, everyone burst into laughter.
"I don't think so. I think there must be a conspiracy behind the Qin army's strange behavior."
Although what this subordinate general said was reasonable, Mi Feng did not dare to completely relax his vigilance and blindly believed that what the Qin army did was just to make them laugh.
"Hey, General Mi, I think you are overly worried. What the Qin army did was just a helpless move." Another general looked at Mi Feng and tried to persuade him.
"That's right, General Mi, as long as we hold on to the pass here, I understand that the Qin army will be unable to do anything."
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After listening to the persuasion of the generals, Mi Feng finally felt relieved, but there was still a trace of reason left that reminded him that there must be a conspiracy behind the Qin army's strange behavior.
After more than ten days of fighting, Huben's soldiers finally completed all preparations to flood the South Vietnamese Army's pass.
What made Han Chuan feel depressed was that as the construction of the river dam was completed, the rain that had been falling for more than ten days actually stopped.
Looking at the clearing sky, Han Chuan felt like crying. Could it be that the great plan he had worked so hard to implement was about to fail? What if the soldiers who dug the earth to build the dam saw that the barrage they built in the rain was useless in the end?
In the land of martial arts, you will really become autistic.
For several days in a row, the sky was cloudless, and the faces of Han Chuan and all the officers and soldiers of the Huben Army became longer and longer with the weather.
On this day, Han Chuan, who had been tortured by several consecutive days of sunny weather and did not know how to deal with himself, summoned all the captains to the Chinese army's tent, preparing to reluctantly shelve the plan of flooding the South Vietnamese Army's pass and re-plan to conquer the pass.
Just after the last general who came to discuss the war entered the Chinese army's tent, a black cloud floated over from the distant sky and stopped above Han Chuan and others.
After a while, countless black clouds rolled in from all directions and gathered above the heads of Han Chuan and others.
Seeing the dark clouds approaching, Han Chuan temporarily stopped the military discussion and excitedly rushed out of the Chinese army's tent together with a group of captains.
After a while, a thunder cracked across the sky, rolling thunder roared in the sea of clouds as black as the bottom of a pot, and strong winds gathered heavy rain and rushed to the earth.
In just one cup of tea, many small streams formed on the ground in front of the camp gate.
"Pass my order, all Yinglong soldiers will take the grass and follow me to the dam. And you, please go back quickly to reorganize your troops and prepare to break through." Han Chuan ordered to the captains.
When Han Chuan led the Yinglong Army soldiers to the dam, the turbid river water was almost level with the top of the dam, and the gourd-shaped basin in front of them had turned into a large swamp.
"Soldiers, follow me to dig the mouth of the dam." Han Chuan excitedly gave the order to the Long soldiers.
The 3,000 Yinglong troops were quickly divided into six groups, each group of 500 men, taking turns to go to the middle of the dam to dig the mouth of the dam.
For their own safety, those Yinglong soldiers who were digging at the center of the dam mouth tied themselves up with long ropes, and handed the other end of the rope to the waiting soldiers on the side.
After continuous excavation by Sergeant Ying Long, a five-meter-wide gap appeared in the center of the embankment. The rapidly surging flood pushed out a ten-meter-wide channel from the gap, roaring towards the South Vietnamese Army Pass.