I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 298

The water rushed in with all kinds of floating debris, and rolled over one place after another. After the water overflowed, the place immediately accumulated water, and then moved forward and continued to sweep away.

There is a saying that water and fire are ruthless. Under natural disasters caused by man-made disasters, there are trees washed down by water everywhere along the way, and the impacting torrent rushes to other places with all kinds of sundries, and everything it passes suffers.

Gubu Ziqing stared blankly at the flood, Zhao Jun in the wilderness was swallowed by the water while running wildly, and the flood rushed to the camp outside the city.

First, the fences of the camp were washed away, and then the tents or huts collapsed one after another, and Zhao's soldiers could be seen struggling to become dots in the running water.

In this case, even being able to swim is useless. They will be engulfed by various debris because the water flow is too fast. If they are not buried by debris for a while, they will soon have no physical strength to sink.

It would be an exaggeration to say that in the blink of an eye, in less than one or two hundred breaths, Zhao's army of about [-] outside the city was gone.

When the flood came to "Jinyang" city, the city wall trembled violently. Fortunately, the city wall withstood the impact and did not collapse. The problem was that the city gate was not blocked. A turbulent gesture poured into the city.

The situation at the beginning was like a modern reservoir opening gates. The water poured into the city like a fountain, washing away the horses and fences placed behind the city gate. "The first victims of the city.

The flood flooded into the city, and Zhao Jun, who discovered the situation, yelled in horror. They spread the panic to other people, and for a while people could be seen running around everywhere.

With the current buildings, many of them are walls made of plants, and then wooden beams are used to support the structure of the house. As a result, when the flood flows through, many houses that cannot bear the weight will collapse.

If there are people on the roof of the collapsed house, you can see them sinking into the thatch in an instant, and then drifting around with the current. If you are not used to water, you will probably die. If you can swim in the unhurried water flow Should it be able to survive?

After waiting for the most turbulent flood to wash away, the speed of the flowing water slowed down. Standing on the city wall and looking out, there were not many figures in the water.

Those who have been washed in the early stage will be taken downstream. If they are lucky, they will struggle until the water rushes to a certain distance and drop to the point where they can stand. Otherwise, they will be washed into the lower reaches of the Fen River and continue to float down, turning into fish Eat in the belly, or soak into a giant view.

"It's over!" Gubu Ziqing's whole body went limp, lying on the city wall and looking at the miserable situation inside the city.

The incident was too sudden, and there was no time to react at all. Even if there were not many casualties in the city, it would be over if the food was soaked in water.

Even if the food is processed quickly, it will soon become moldy after being soaked, and the storage time after cooking is also short.

Without food, some people are basically useless for birds, and even if there are too many people, it is a burden. Not to mention that after this water attack, the morale of the defenders was disintegrated.

On this day, the Zhao family suffered heavy losses, and the faces of the living people were all dazed like wandering spirits.

For the next period of time, none of Zhishi's soldiers showed up. They stayed on the mountain and waited for the accumulated water to drop to a suitable level before taking action in small boats or rafts.

Even though the incident had already happened and four days had passed, Zhi Xuwu still felt a great shock.

The tens of thousands of troops collapsed after a water attack, and it is unknown how many people died.

If it is defeated by the two armies fighting, it is unknown how many of their own people will be killed or injured in the victory. As a result, the enemy army was solved by a water attack.

After the water level dropped, the Zhi family began to take action. A large number of soldiers set off on rafts that had been prepared long ago. Regardless of the soldiers of the Zhao family who survived in the wilderness, they flocked to "Jinyang".

They came to the "Jinyang" city wall and began to throw the hook, and then used the rope to climb up after fixing it.

It's not that the Zhao family didn't notice Zhi's movements, but it seemed that they had lost their organizational strength. They watched Zhi's soldiers climb up the city wall, and the Zhao soldiers just looked at them without any energy.

At present, the stagnant water in the city of "Jinyang" is more serious than that outside the city. The main reason is that only the city gate can release the water poured in, and it will be really difficult to excrete it in large quantities for a while.

It is worth noting that the city wall did not collapse when it was washed, and there was no sign of collapse after soaking for four days, which shows that the Zhao family guaranteed the quality of the project when building the city.

If there is a if, that is, if Gubu Ziqing completely blocked the city gate from the beginning, can it keep the water out of the city?
May be?

After all, Zhao Yang had already considered the use of water attack to break the siege when he built the city, so how could there be no relevant precautions.

This is also related to who will be the commander of "Jinyang".

If Zhao Wuji was in command at that time, at least he would not have forgotten to order the lowering of the city gate's Qianjin gate. Gubu Ziqing, who is better at internal affairs than military affairs, was stunned by such an accident.

Until Gubu Ziqing was escorted to Zhi Xuwu, the chief retainer of the Zhao family could be seen still looking dull.

Zhi Xuwu can understand Gubu Ziqing very well. It would be difficult for anyone to recover from such a blow. He didn't mean to embarrass Gubu Ziqing, so he ordered Hao Sheng not to torture him.

When it was his turn to be escorted, Gubu Ziqing came back to his senses and asked, "Did Mr. Zhi deliberately let Wu Shi go?"

Zhi Xuwu didn't answer, and watched Gubu Ziqing be detained again.

This time it seemed that it didn't take much effort for Zhishi to win "Jinyang".

For a person who doesn't know how to observe the terrain and reuse it, how long it will take to fight will be a problem, and whether it can be attacked is another problem.

To say that Zhi Xuwu had some criticisms about Zhiyao's offer of such good conditions for recruiting Sun Wu before, after this "Battle of Jinyang", it should be a compliment to Zhiyao's understanding of people.

"Sun Wu is like this. It seems that I underestimated Sima Rangju in the past!" Zhi Xuwu decided in his heart that he should respect some wise people more in the future.

At the same time, Zhiyao, the Wudu of Zhixu, has repeatedly recruited talents and has no complaints. On the contrary, he wants to take on the role of persuading the tribe not to feel resentment.

The fact is that, even if Zhiyao can say the same thing within Zhishi, making some decisions will still provoke dissatisfaction from some people, especially when Zhiyao has an increasing tendency to reuse foreign surnames.

In order to complete the hegemony, Zhiyao found that talents are willing to absorb and reuse, which will definitely encroach on the power and interests of the tribe, and there will be a tendency to oppose the gaining power of foreign surnames internally.

This kind of situation is not only encountered by Zhiyao, any group that reuses foreign surnames will encounter similar situations. Generally, groups that oppose the gaining power of foreign surnames will be regarded as conservatives.

These conservatives are incapable of helping the people expand their territories, and they interfere in everything to delay the progress. When the contradictions cannot be suppressed, the conservatives usually end up with bad luck.

There is no way out, the owner has great ambitions, but the conservatives are unable to help and have been dragging their feet. It is not that they are unlucky, but can it be the group that can help the owner?
Of course, Zhiyao pays attention to internal training, but simply lacks some time, waiting for the group of small partners to grow up, which happens to be able to take over the current group of people.

Those little friends are either members of the Zhi clan or the heirs of the retainers, which means that they have inherited the interests of the older generation. Zhiyao then recruits talents from the outside to join the group. Maintaining a balance will be the most appropriate approach.

Half a month later, the battle report on "Jinyang" was sent to Zhiyao who lived in "Handan".

The battle report was written in great detail, not only introducing the whole process of the army's actions, but also including some considerations.

"The city chose to build near the river, it seems there are good and bad..." Zhiyao didn't know the original history, but only understood how terrifying a strategic figure was.

That was Sun Wu. It turned out that Wu Jun was able to attack the capital of Chu State because of Sun Wu's planning and layout. In the other times, as a staff officer, he was also good at grasping the enemy's weakness and giving a fatal blow.

Can Sun Tzu take advantage of things like terrain?To be honest, Zhiyao will not be surprised.

Here is also a reminder to Zhiyao, even if you choose to build a city by the river, you must not choose a basin!

"'Puyang' is on the edge of the big river, and it is a flat river. Will it be attacked by water one day?" Zhiyao was simply awakened, and she laughed out loud when she thought about it.

"Puyang" and "Jinyang" are two different things, "Jinyang" is a basin, "Puyang" is not.

Now there are examples of "Jinyang" choosing to be attacked by water at the edge of the river. Isn't there also an example in history of "Xiangyang" relying on water to ensure continuous replenishment and being able to hold on for several years?
In any case, Zhishi won the "Jinyang" city, and his own losses were extremely slight.

In the follow-up treatment, for example, after the water attack, the drowned corpses are everywhere, and the corpses need to be dealt with as much as possible to avoid the plague; some sundries should be cleaned up slowly.

Zhiyao agreed with Sun Wu's proposition, and she didn't regret letting Zhao Wuxie go.

People must have a structure and understand the core of a matter. Zhiyao very much agrees with Sun Wu's view that letting the enemy go is to expand more victories and gain more benefits.

Regarding this point, those who understand may not necessarily do it, what is more important is to pay more attention to the immediate interests.

The fact is that, the Zhao family without foundation is no longer worthy of fear, and Zhiyao will not give Zhao Wuxie decades to eat and digest Dai Guo.

To a certain extent, Zhiyao just wanted Zhao Wuxie to go to Daiguo to play the game of stealing the country, and continue to let the Zhao family carry forward the family style of "dare to be the first in the world", so as to prevent Tian Qi from not having enough courage to play the game of stealing the country. The Zhi family set a precedent in history, so that the "replacement" of the Chen surname Tian was scolded for more than 1000 years, and Guozuo was always on guard after it disappeared.

"The next step is to play with Wei and Han internally, and deal with Wu, Chu, Qi and Song externally."

Zhiyao thought that she could hide the news of taking down 'Jinyang' and seduce certain people.

(End of this chapter)