Confucianism in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 26
After the Battle of Yiyang, Lord Xinling ordered the Wei army to return to Luonan Road, leaving only 3 people from Pang Nuan's army.

Wang Yu's remnant tribe was defeated again by Gongsunying's tribe in Tang, and retreated to Mengjin, intending to join the Qin army in Luoyi.

On the one hand, Pang Nuan bluffed in Yiyang and continued to make the illusion of besieging Yiyang City; on the other hand, he sent troops north to Quyang, making a gesture of preparing to join forces with the Han army to encircle and wipe out the remnants of Wang Yu in Luoyi, Mengjin, in order to confuse Qin Ting's judgment.

At the Nanluo River Ferry, it was just dawn, and the entire river was covered with boats.

These ships traveled from south to north, crossed Luonan Road, traveled south to Xinjin, walked north along the Jin River, and arrived at Lushi. After that, the Wei army would continue northward to Puban, and went straight to the rear of the Qin army in Hexi. .

At this time, ships of different sizes lined up neatly on the river, moving slowly like a long dragon. Occasionally, a few large ships splashed huge waves on the water, causing the surrounding rafts to give way.

The Wei army has requisitioned all the ships within hundreds of miles nearby, and cut wood into boats to transport soldiers and food, so that the river is full of rafts of various sizes.

"Brother Fu, the wooden float you made has passed the line." Zhang Tan said, staring at the wooden utensils placed in the river.

"Brother Zhang just pick up the wooden float." Fu Nian recorded the time when the wooden float crossed the river.

Time is the scale for measuring distance. He reduced the length of the scale on the wooden board in proportion to the length of the river, and then made a time scale based on the flow velocity formula to mark the corresponding time for segmented measurement.

His method is to select a straight river section, measure the cross-sectional area of ​​the water flow within a certain interval of the section, and calculate the average cross-sectional area.

Then put a buoy in the upstream section, measure the time required for the buoy to flow through the determined section (L), repeat the measurement several times, and calculate the average value (t) of the required time to calculate the flow rate (L/t).

Zhang Tan picked up the wooden float from the river, weighed it in his hands, and put it aside. He had already placed the wooden float several times.

"Brother Nian, 6 drops of water took 4.8 seconds." Yu Chan'er stared at the water leak and said.

Fu Nian told her that one drop of water is 1.25 seconds. When she asked what a second is, he told her that it was a moment, and taught her arithmetic, saying it was multiplication.

This is a simple hourglass he made. He placed five wooden vessels in a ladder, drilled a small hole at the bottom of each vessel, and measured the height of the water level from one noon to the second noon at the bottom of the wooden vessel that received water. This height is divided into 24 equal parts, and each scale is divided into five equal parts for accuracy.

After the completion, just record the number of water droplets within a scale, and then you can calculate how many seconds a water drop is equal to, and then convert it into an accurate time.

"Thank you Yu'er." Fu Nian stopped what he was doing and turned to Yu Chan'er.

He knew that this girl seemed weak, but in fact she was tough and strong, and she didn't want to be his burden.

So he taught her these basic things so that she could do some simple tasks.

He had taught her some simple arithmetic, and the girl learned quickly, and she was a bright person.

Perhaps when she returns to Daliang, she can be taught to read, read, write, perform rites, music, poetry, painting, and numerology.

Yuchan'er was quite happy when she heard the words, a slight blush appeared on that pretty little face.

After collecting the data, Fu Nian summarized the results of the field survey and the hydrological conditions learned from the mouths of the local household water husbands into the silk book, marked the positive and negative dimensions and the conditions of the river, and drew them into a hydrological map.

"Mr. Xinling, I have drawn the hydrological map." Fu Nian went to find Lord Xinling after drawing the hydrological map.

"Nian, if you can defeat the Qin army in this battle, you will contribute a lot." Lord Xinling regards him very highly.

At such an age, he is proficient in the art of learning, arithmetic, and Gewu, which is really a strange person.

"Fu Nian dare not take credit for it." After saying that, he gave the hydrological map to Lord Xinling.

Mr. Xinling took over the hydrological map and looked at it, already thinking about it.

If you go by water, at the speed of marching against the current, it will take three days for Wei Bing to sail south to Xinjin by boat.But after reaching Xinjin, the speed of marching downstream is only one day from Xinjin to Lushi.It will take at least eight days if you go overland and add the necessary supplies.

He has sent Ji Yanran, Yang Gongxie and other heroes and Wei Qing's Shanzi battalion to clear the Qin army and spies on the road.

He needed to beat the Qin army with an information gap, and before Meng Ao and Qin Ting could respond to Wang Yu's defeat, he went straight to the rear of the Meng Ao army outside the river.

Taking the waterway can save half the time, so he can only choose to take the waterway.

The first batch of nearly [-] soldiers assembled on the river beach, stood in formation, held weapons, and waited for orders.

Lord Xinling stood at the forefront of the team, watching the big ships on the river in the distance sailing slowly and firmly towards the north.

At the time of Shen Shi, Fu Nian followed Lord Xinling as the last batch of soldiers to board the ship, and he also boarded with the fleet and headed for Xinjin.

The slender girl stood on the stone steps by the river, looking at the big boat gradually going away in the distance, feeling a little sad in her heart.

She stayed here. Without his help, she would have died under the sword of Qin Jun.

.........

The night is as cool as water, and everything is silent.The reeds on the river beach occasionally sounded a few insects.

Deep in the reeds, several wooden boats sailed quietly, cutting through the mist in the air.

Wei Wuzu of Shanziying put on his armor and was doing the final inspection and maintenance of his weapons.Many people smeared grease on their knives, and the night was cold, and the knives were often unable to be drawn out of their sheaths.

For this night attack, everyone wore a layer of black clothes over their armor, like ghosts walking in the dark.

The gates of the Xinjin Qin army camp were closed, and only two teams of patrol soldiers guarded the wall with long halberds.

To the north, on the hillside about fifty feet away from the camp gate, dozens of figures were hidden behind a rough rock.

Earlier, Yang Gongxie sneaked into the Qin army's camp to investigate, and he already had a grasp of the layout inside. There were probably more than a thousand Qin soldiers stationed in Xinjin.

"It's almost time, the people from Shanziying should be here soon, act." Ji Yanran raised her head to look to the south, and ordered in a deep voice.

Apart from their journey, a group of people headed by Xue Zhu was lurking in the bushes to the west.Their task is to kill the fleeing Qin soldiers in the Qin camp and clean up the fish that slipped through the net.

In the Qin army camp, the Qin soldiers standing guard gradually revealed their figures under the light of the fire, and they didn't realize the danger was approaching at all.

Suddenly, inexplicably, in a blink of an eye, this group of Qin soldiers only felt that the vital points of their bodies seemed to be captured by someone strangely, and they felt a burst of suffocation. Without making a sound, even breathing became difficult, and he collapsed to the ground in an instant, dying of breath.

Yang Gongxie's finger skills and claw skills can be described as unpredictable.

His claws are sharp and powerful in this style of catching big discarded pieces. As long as he grabs any part of the opponent's body, even the hair or earlobe, he can kill the opponent.

These Qin soldiers were caught off guard and killed with one move, and there was no room for resistance at all.

Seeing that the sentry post was gone, everyone quickly ran out of the hiding place, sneaked into the Qin army camp, and killed anyone they saw without hesitation.

When the soldiers of Wei from the Shanzi Camp arrived, the Qin camp was in a mess, the army's morale was slackened, and they fled in all directions. Countless Qin troops were cut down in a pool of blood. There was a strong smell of blood.

"Kill!" Wei Qing yelled, holding a long sword in his hand, and leading the soldiers under his command to rush towards the enemy's formation.

Under the leadership of Wei Qing, Wei Wuzu rushed into the Qin camp, stabbing left and right like a tiger entering a herd of sheep. Countless Qin soldiers fell to the ground screaming.

With the addition of Wei Wuzu, the outcome of this battle is doomed.

.........

Xinjin Ferry has now become a temporary camp for the Wei army.On the river not far away, boats came slowly, followed by a pontoon bridge made of rafts.

After docking, Wei Bing fixed the board with ropes, and built a wooden plank road along the bank to dock the raft.

After the first batch of Wei soldiers disembarked, they carried supplies to the shore, cleared the ferry, and prepared for the arrival of the follow-up army.

As the chief officer of Wei Wuzu, Wei Qing took over the command and ordered the Wei soldiers under his command to gather up the tents near the ferry, and at the same time arrange manpower to build a new camp.

The Wei army needs to land all within today.

(End of this chapter)