Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 605 Flooded Yan City
Yancheng?
Qingji suddenly remembered that there was such a typical battle in history.

During the Warring States period, Qin general Bai Qi led tens of thousands of troops eastward along the Han River, captured important towns along the banks, plundered the abundant grain and grass in the Han River Basin to supply military supplies, and broke into the Chu territory unexpectedly.

Under the leadership of Bai Qi, the Qin army drove straight in, quickly attacked and occupied Deng, an important place in the Han River Basin of Chu State, and reached Bieduyan in Chu State.

The Qin army encountered the most tenacious resistance in Yancheng since it entered the Chu territory, and it failed to attack repeatedly. However, the Qin army went deep alone, and it was not suitable for a long time.

Therefore, Bai Qi took advantage of the favorable conditions that the Yi water flowed from the Changgu in the west of Chu Mountain to the southeast, built an embankment to store water a hundred miles west of Yancheng, and built a long canal to reach Yancheng.

Then a canal was opened to irrigate the city, and the water entered the city into an abyss. The northeast corner of Yancheng was soaked and broken by the river, and hundreds of thousands of people in the city were drowned...

The battle between Yan and Ying made Bai Qi the "Rentu" famous, and Bai Qi was named "Wu'an Lord" because of this, and his fame moved the world.

In other words, people who are enshrined as Lord Wu'an generally do not end well.

Such as Bai Qi, such as Li Mu, such as Su Qin.

It is able to raise soldiers, fights will be conquered, and the people can gather in peace, so it is called Wu'an.

However, they died either because of their great achievements, or because of villains' slander...

Qingji took Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Fan Li and other generals to Yishui and Xishan Changgu to survey the terrain.

After hearing that Qingji planned to build a hundred-mile-long canal to flood Yancheng in order to win the battle, all the generals present could not help but change color.

Fortunately, only Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Bo Tong, Fan Li, and Gong Ziheng followed Qingji, all of whom were confidantes.

Otherwise, if it spreads out, it may damage Qingji's reputation.

"Your Majesty, no!"

Fan Li couldn't help frowning, and said: "Building a hundred-mile-long canal to flood Yancheng with water will certainly help our Wu army win a big victory."

"Of course, attacking it with water will harm the peace of heaven!"

"In this city of Yan, there are more than 20 soldiers and civilians of Chu State, perhaps no fewer than [-]!"

"If Your Majesty replaces soldiers with water and floods the city of Yan, I'm afraid it will cause blood to flow, and the heavens will be angry! This..."

Fan Li dared not speak further.

What is "harmful peace"?
In the book "Guiguzi", there are nine things that hurt the harmony of nature, and you must never do them in your lifetime!
First, those who are addicted to lust also suffer from abdominal ulcers.

Second, those who profit from goods are also revenge for losing their lives.

Third, those who are jealous are the harm of death.

Fourth, slanderers are soldiers with broken legs.

Fifth, those who slander and slander will be rewarded with thunder.

Sixth, those who are cruel will be the disaster of the world.

Seventh, the framer is also the place where heirs are destroyed.

Eighth, those who play games are the gradual progress of the family.

Ninth, those who are addicted to alcohol are the beginning of poverty and hunger.

If Qingji brazenly built a hundred-mile-long canal and flooded Yancheng, it would harm the peace of heaven, which one would he commit?
The cruel ones are a peerless calamity!
It means: cruelty to others, using any means, is the behavior of wicked people. Hurting others is making enemies for oneself, and in serious cases, it will even harm family members. It must not be done.

Qing Ji like this, the killing is too heavy, it will hurt the peace of the world, I am afraid that he will be spurned by others, and his life will be shortened!
This is not a joke.

Just like the matter of "killing the emperor" was the bottom line refreshed by Sima Zhao and Liu Yu.

In the battle of Baiqi Yanying, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of Chu State were killed. How could it not refresh the bottom line of the war?
It cannot be done.

Once Qingji does this, it will be emulated by future generations, making the war more and more cruel.

Moreover, this is extremely detrimental to Qingji's reputation.

"Your Majesty!"

Bo Tong couldn't help but said: "Once this hundred-mile-long canal is built and then dug up, the city of Yan will be flooded with water. I'm afraid that none of the more than [-] Chu people in the city will be spared and die!"

"The life and death of the people of Chu is of course insignificant, but it only damages the prestige of the king..."

"I heard that those who torture and kill people will be punished by heaven."

"If more than one hundred thousand soldiers and civilians of the Chu Kingdom were swallowed up by the flood and drowned, I am afraid that the king... I am willing to lead the army for the king, and bear the infamy and the punishment of heaven!"

With a "plop", Bo Tong knelt down on the ground, clenched his fists and said to Qingji with a choked voice, "If the minister can die, the king will be safe! Great Wu Guozuo will live forever!"

"Sir, never give up!"

Hearing this, Qingji's heart was also quite moved.

Unexpectedly, at such a time, Bo Tong could stand up and stand up to celebrate the taboo and prevent disasters by setting an example.

The theory of shortening one's life is certainly mysterious, but how could Qingji not have some concerns?
"Your Majesty..."

Sun Wu, who was standing aside, sighed and said: "This flooding of Yancheng can certainly conquer Yancheng once and for all and wipe out the remaining Chu people's army, but it is too harmful."

"Your Majesty, please think again!"

Sun Wu has never been a soft-hearted person.

It's just that the flooding of Yancheng caused too much bad influence. Even Sun Wu could predict how the world would criticize and criticize Wu.

This is not a simple infamy that a general can afford.

"Great Sima, besides this, do you have a better strategy, can you take Yancheng for me?"

"This……"

Faced with Qingji's inquiry, Sun Wu was speechless.

However, Sun Wu always believed that the tactics of flooding Yancheng were too extreme.

……

After returning to the camp, Qingji gave the order to dig a canal.

Wu'an attacked Qi soldiers in the south, and Xia Yu was merged with them by dredging chisels.

Who said that after a thousand years of Changqu, the barbarian stream still enters the ancient city of Yi.

This song "Ode to Changqu" written by Hu Zeng in the Tang Dynasty is well known in Yicheng City.

This canal was developed and utilized, and became a water conservancy project.

More than a hundred miles of flowing water, thousands of hectares of irrigated fields.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Chong, the prefect of Nanjun, excavated the Muli Ditch on this basis to further expand the area of ​​the irrigation area, and Yicheng has since become a land of fish and rice...

Is Qingji really going to flood Yancheng?
Not necessarily.

In history, Bai Qi chose to flood Yancheng because his army went deep and could not fight a protracted war.

Wu Jun is different.

There was no need for Qingji to choose such a cruel strategy to conquer Yancheng.

He just forced the Chu army to fight, and dug a hundred-mile-long canal along the way to develop this land of fish and rice.

Ten days later, Qingji, who had dug a canal, ordered the embankment to be dug, but it only submerged some of Yancheng, up to his knees.

Taking advantage of this momentum, Qingji wrote a letter in his own hand, inviting Chu generals Shen Zhuliang and Mi Ji to come out and have a look.

As the main general, Shen Zhuliang was inconvenient to go out, so he asked Mi Ji to come to Baili Changqu to have a look as the envoy.

I don't know if I don't see it, I'm startled when I see it.

Mi Ji was so frightened that his face paled when he saw the river embankment that had been broken.

Qing Ji, who was standing aside, chuckled lightly and said, "Mi Ji, how is it?"

"The widow is not scaring you."

"Once this hundred-mile-long canal is opened, the city of Yan will be flooded with water, and the soldiers and civilians in the city will probably become fish and shrimp, with more than [-] floating corpses, and none of them will survive!"

(End of this chapter)