The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 619 Yang Duanhe's tacit understanding [Subscribe*Monthly ticket requested]

"We are guilty!" Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe admitted their mistakes decisively.

Don't look for any reasons or excuses at this time. Just admit your mistake honestly and vent your anger to the king.

Ying Zheng was really tired. If he doesn't manage the household, he won't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are.

Every day the army is away, the money consumed is tens of thousands.

This is all money!

However, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe, who had preconceived notions, saw Ying Zheng's expression of heartache for the money, which meant that the king really was unwilling to wait even a day longer!

So after Ying Zheng left, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe looked at each other again, remained silent for a long time, and then stood up solemnly and looked at the military officers.

"No matter what method you use, before sunset tomorrow, I want to see the Qin Dynasty's black bird flag planted on the top of Handan City!" Wang Jian said without any doubt.

This made things very difficult for the officers and generals of the Qin army.

This is the first city of Zhao State.

Back then, even Wu'an Jun didn't dare to follow orders to attack Handan.

General Wang Qi also attacked Handan for nearly a year but failed to capture it.

Now they are asked to conquer it in one day. Isn't this making things difficult for them?

"Yes!" Yang Duanhe did not stand up to support them at this time and refute Wang Jian's unrealistic order. Instead, he took the initiative to accept the military order.

Wang Jian was also stunned for a moment.

He just wanted to put on an act. After all, the king should not have gone far by now and could hear what he said and know their attitude.

As long as Yang Duanhe stands up and explains the situation on the battlefield, we can give him a way out.

This not only shows their attitude, but also shows that it's not that they don't want to go fast, but that it's really difficult.

Who knew that Yang Duanhe would actually lose his tacit understanding with him this time.

"Ahem..." Wang Jian coughed awkwardly and reminded Yang Duanhe, I'm just pretending and you just need to cooperate with me and perform for the king. I don't really want to attack the city at all costs!

"General, do you still remember Zhao Yi?" Yang Duanhe did not seem to understand what Wang Jian meant and continued to speak.

Wang Jian frowned, but nodded.

Normally, as the commander of the army, he would not remember this small captain of the engineering battalion. The main reason was that Yang Duan and the deputy commander of the army had a quarrel with Zhao Yi, which also made all the Qin army generals know about this person.

"He and I have some tacit understanding!" Yang Duanhe said with a smile.

"?" Wang Jian looked at Yang Duanhe in confusion. You have a tacit understanding with an enemy captain, why don't you have such a tacit understanding with me?
"In fact, Master Zhao Yi knew that Handan could not be defended, and he was also tired of war. Every time we attacked the city, they would repair the city as soon as possible..."

Yang Duanhe slowly told his plan.

"Then what?" Wang Jian had no doubts. When attacking or defending a city, during the night truce, the engineering battalion would naturally be the first to repair the city walls.

"Then, he knew very well that some city walls would be destroyed the next day even if they were repaired. In other words, even if some city walls were repaired, we would give up attacking this section of the city wall after we were beaten to a pulp. So, Zhao Yi knew this very well. Therefore, there were several sections of the city walls that he didn't repair at all!"

Yang Duanhe said with a smile.

This was not his imagination, but something that had been verified. However, Yang Duanhe did not send troops to attack these broken city walls before, but left them there on purpose.

After all, even if he had sent troops to attack these weaknesses before, the defenders of Handan would have been able to hold on again.

Only when there are enough such loopholes, and the Qin army rushes forward, can the defenders of Handan be unable to take care of both. As for why Zhao Yi did this, it was not because Zhao Yi was irresponsible and did it on purpose, but because Handan really did not provide their engineering battalion with so much wood and stone for repairing the city wall, nor did it have so much labor for Zhao Yi to command.

Zhao Yida could only take advantage of the situation and use wood and stone at key locations. Even though he might have anticipated that this was a trap deliberately set by Yang Duanhe, he had no other way.

All he could do was to find a way to remind the bigwigs and generals in Handan.

But as Ying Zheng and Wang Jian said, Zhao Yi was just a small captain of the engineering battalion and was not worthy of being remembered by the Qin army generals.

Therefore, it was impossible for Zhao Yida's reminder to appear in front of those important figures and military generals in Handan.

After all, the engineering battalion does all the hard work and does not participate in the fighting on the front line, so naturally no one in Handan would pay attention to his opinions.

His reminders were also thrown aside.

Wang Jian did not expect such a thing to happen.

Defending the city without repairing the walls, isn't that seeking death?
"I have marked out those areas that have not been repaired or have only been roughly repaired!" Yang Duanhe came to the sand table, took his record from his confidant, and then drew marks on the simulated sand table wall bit by bit.

According to Yang Duanhe's markings, there were as many as seventeen problematic sections of the entire Handan city wall.

"Good hell!" Wang Jian couldn't help cursing, and then hurriedly explained, "I'm not scolding you!"

Yang Duanhe waved his hand indifferently.

As a deputy general, he did everything he could and observed to the utmost, and the rest was what Wang Jian should do.

Wang Jian did not let down the opportunity created by Yang Duanhe. He began to issue military orders one after another, coordinating and splitting the army's deployment. The entire army would be sent out at once tomorrow to attack the seventeen loopholes.

As for keeping it?

Wang Jian sneered, a general who is not brave enough to risk everything is not worthy of being a famous general!

Early in the morning of the second day, just as the mist had dispersed, groups of dark and solemn Qin troops appeared outside the city of Handan.

It was still the same three old tactics of the Qin army: covering with a rain of arrows and then charging.

The suppression of the Qin army's arrow formation allowed the Qin army's vanguard to quickly approach the city wall. After the rain of arrows, the vanguard had already set up siege ladders under the city wall.

"It's over!" In a temporary military camp under the inner wall of Handan city, Zhao Yi's face turned pale.

Although he did not have to go to the front line, he could see from the various orders from the central army that the places attacked by the Qin army were all places that he had not repaired or had repaired roughly before.

Because these sections of the city wall were attacked fiercely, the central army also asked him to send people to repair them as soon as possible, so he knew very well that Handan was finished!

He was tricked by Yang Duanhe again!

But can he be blamed for this?
He had only a few hundred engineers under his command, but they were responsible for repairing the entire Handan city wall.

The central army repeatedly said that they would add more miscellaneous tasks and corvée labor to him, but no one came.

The gap between the upper echelons and the common people had already existed, and there was no corvée at all.

This time, they no longer had Lord Pingyuan who sacrificed his family to overcome difficulties, nor did they have the support of the people who were united in purpose.

All he could do was to repair the most important places as much as possible, where the Qin army attacked most fiercely.

So, Yang Duanhe took advantage of this.

(End of this chapter)