That night, Ying Qian stayed asleep all night and reorganized his Qin army's casualties.

According to rough statistics, in Dongliang, the Qin army attacked the city for two days, with a total of about 25,000 casualties. Then they were forced to fight a tug-of-war with the defenders in the city for three days and three nights, with the casualties of about 20,000.

There were almost 45,000 people. In addition to the battle losses of Miao Lin and Ji Liang in the old Liang that day, Ying Qian estimated that the number of casualties of the Qin army had reached nearly 60,000.

Although casualties do not equal deaths, the real number of casualties may be only about 30% of the casualties, the final calculated number still makes Ying Qian feel shocking.

He attacked Shaoliang with 200,000 Qin troops in just ten days, died 20,000 and injured 40,000. One city was not defeated. If Ying Qian had not experienced this battle personally, he could not imagine that the Qin army would have suffered such heavy casualties in a small country like Shaoliang, and he could not imagine that Ying Qian would have achieved such ridiculous results.

Just when Ying Qian was embarrassed and angry, a guard suddenly reported outside the South City Gate Tower: "Supervisor Qian, General Gongsun Jia is asking for a meeting."

“Hmm?”

Ying Qian couldn't help but feel a little suspicious: Could it be that the Dongliang defenders in the city have taken action again? No, the city walls of the two city gates in the east and west were taken back by the opposite side? The opposite side wouldn't even want to take back the South gate, right? Besides, he didn't hear any noise. Except for those damn Shao Liang's soldiers, they ambushed his Qin army soldiers every night!

When Ying Qian was suspicious, Gongsun Jia walked into the city gate tower and hugged Ying Qian and clasped his fists: "Qian Shuai."

Ying Qian asked with a calm face: "Is there any abnormal movement on the other side?"

"ah?"

Gongsun Jia was stunned for a moment before reacting and quickly explained: "Oh, Qianshuai said the defenders in the city? No, the defenders of Dongliang did not move any abnormally. They just saw the lights on the city gate tower when they were patrolling at night. They learned that Qianshuai had not yet rested, so they came to take a look..."

"oh……"

Ying Qian breathed a sigh of relief with relief.

The next moment, a burst of shame and anger surged in his heart: As the commander of the 200,000 Qin army, he felt relieved that Dongliang did not launch a night attack on him tonight?!

Gongsun Jia clearly saw Ying Qian's face changing, and he felt a little nervous, and asked carefully: "Shishen Qian, did you say something wrong?"

Hearing this, Ying Qian realized his incompetence, held his forehead with his hand and shook his head slightly: "No, it has nothing to do with you, it's me... forget it. Since you are here, I want to hear your opinions. What do you think of this battle...what should our army view?"

"I don't understand, please let Qian Shuai make it clear." Gongsun Jia did not dare to speak nonsense.

Seeing Gongsun Jia being careful, Ying Qian asked the guards beside him to hand over the casualties he counted to the former.

Seeing this general casualty statistics, Gongsun Jia's expression also changed slightly.

Although as a general on the front line, he had a rough estimate of the casualties of the Qin army, when the casualties of "two thousand deaths and four thousand injuries" were placed in front of him, he was also a little unbelievable - the Qin army had paid such a huge price for the attack on Shaoliang this time?

What's even more terrible is that Shaoliang only has five cities in total, and even one of the five cities has not yet been captured by his Qin army.

Let me ask, if the Qin army wanted to capture Shaoliang, they would have to pay the price of tens of thousands of casualties?

Hundred thousand?

One hundred thousand casualties, which is almost equivalent to fighting a war with Wei.

Looking at the casualties statistics in his hands, and then looking at Ying Qian who was sitting in the main seat and holding his forehead, Gongsun Jia vaguely understood: the handsome Qian in front of him probably felt that the price of conquering Shaoliang was too heavy.

After thinking about it, he carefully tentatively said, "Does Qianshuai want to... be with Shao Liang Yan?"

"Yanhe?"

Ying Qian shook his head and sneered twice when he heard this, as if he thought Gongsun Jia's words were very ridiculous, but he did not accuse Gongsun Jia, but just sighed in a complaining tone: "Why don't you say these Shaoliang people refuse to surrender to my Daqin?"

When Gongsun Jia heard this, he understood.

The Qianshu in front of him really no longer wants to continue this war that was destined to cause heavy losses to the Qin army, but he is unwilling to retreat like this.

He thought for a while and replied: "It's probably because Shaoliang and I have the same clan and origin as the Qin people..."

Ying Qian remained silent, and after a while, nodded slightly: "Maybe."

I still remember that he had previously hinted that Gongsun Jia did not have to worry too much about the relationship between the Shaoliang people and the Qin people. This shows that he had never regarded the Shaoliang people as his compatriots of the Qin people before, but now, when his Qin army paid nearly 60,000 casualties but did not capture a city, Ying Qian finally began to face up to these Shaoliang people who had the same clan and origin as his Qin people.

He must admit that the backbone and blood of Shaoliang people are not inferior to that of the old Qin people.

In contrast, what is the Herong Kingdom south of Shaoliang?

Sure enough, the Qin people are the best nation in the world.

Thinking of this, Ying Qian's depression was relieved. After all, the Shaoliang people and the Qin people of the same clan, and fighting between the two countries is like a brother fighting a wall. To put it simply, it is like the brother who wants to eat away the property of his younger brother, but he was beaten up by his thin younger brother. It is embarrassing, but it is better than losing to Wei and South Korea.

Compared with Shaoliang, Wei and Han, the two countries are another ethnic group that is completely different from the Qin people. At the same time, they are also the real enemy of Qin's march into the Central Plains.

Of course, this forced explanation was just a matter of comfort, and it would not help the war in front of you at all.

After pondering for a while, Ying Qian asked Gongsun Jia: "You said, if our army continues to put pressure on Shaoliang, will Shaoliang surrender?"

"This...is hard to say."

Gongsun Jia shook his head and said, "If all the young Liang people were like the Dongliang defenders, I'm afraid..."

Hearing this, Ying Qian was silent again.

In fact, he could roughly estimate the number of defenders in Dongliang City. As of now, only seven or eight thousand people have been killed. Logically speaking, his Qin army is not afraid of this little force at all, but it has to be said that the bravery of the defenders of Dongliang was much beyond Ying Qian's expectations.

Looking at the tug-of-wars that have been back and forth in the city over the past few days, Ying Qian privately estimated that if the Qin army wanted to capture Dongliang in one fell swoop and lead the entire 8,000 defenders in the city to wipe out, at least about 15,000 to 20,000 yuan to 20,000 yuan to kill - note that it was killed!

If the casualties were the number, it might be less than 40,000.

And this is a city, and there are old beams and Shaoliang at least two fierce battles of the same degree.

With this calculation, even 100,000 casualties could not be stopped.

If we say that the target of the attack was Wei State, it would be fine, but Liang... a small country...

Ying Qian felt at a loss no matter how he thought about it.

Looking at Ying Qian's tangled look, Gongsun Jia hesitated and said: "In my opinion, Qian Shuai is not careful to send envoys to negotiate with Shao Liang again. If Shao Liang is willing to betray the State of Wei and surrender to our Great Qin, in fact, I, Da Qin, don't have to annex it..."

Ying Qian said nothing after hearing this.

He was not against Gongsun Jia's suggestion. After all, Qin vowed to retake Hexi. On the one hand, it was his father's last wish of the monarch of Qin, but more importantly, it was to open up a channel to march into the Central Plains.

Now, Qin has captured the Herong Kingdom and has opened this passage. Attacking Shaoliang is actually just a convenience, and even if he is free to clean up Shaoliang, who would have thought that this convenient way would have caused Qin to fall into a quagmire.

This battle has reached this point. In fact, Ying Qian also wants to make peace with Shao Liang Yan. It is embarrassing to be embarrassed, but it is better than to smash tens of thousands of troops into Shao Liang again?

Moreover, as long as Shao Liang was willing to turn to Qin and become a vassal state of Qin, even if Qin lost some face in Shao Liang, he could still save him again.

Furthermore, Shaoliang has many talents, such as Dongliang Jun, Zhai Hu, especially the 500-man general Li He, and the Shaoliang soldiers under his command...

Ying Qian had seen the strength of the Shaoliang Qi soldier with his own eyes. Although he also saw that these Shaoliang Qi soldiers did not seem to be good at fighting on the frontal battlefield, in terms of harassment and sneak attacks, these people were even more annoying than Ji Xia's floaters.

If Shao Liang surrendered to Qin, then Li He and his Shao Liang soldiers would be used by him. If the one who would be unlucky at that time would be the Wei people...

Ying Qian is also looking forward to this, which is stronger, which is better, or the strange soldiers of the Wei State or the Shaoliang army, and whether the former can resist the omnipresent harassment, sneak attacks and assassinations of the latter.

But the question is, will Shaoliang surrender?

Although many Qin army was killed or injured this time, Shaoliang also killed many people. The seeds of hatred have been planted. Will the other party still surrender to Qin?

Furthermore, the Qin army suffered 60,000 casualties, and a city was not captured. Now he hurriedly sent envoys to negotiate with Shaoliang. Will this help increase Shaoliang's arrogance?

After thinking for a while, Ying Qian murmured with a tense face: "It seems that we should build a camp first, and then..."

"Build a camp?" Gongsun Jia looked surprised.

He didn't understand why Ying Qian, who had been eager to capture Shaoliang, suddenly wanted to build a camp again. He should know that it would take a lot of time to build a camp under the "clearing of the field" strategy of Shaoliang.

"Yes, build a camp."

Faced with Gongsun Jia's suspicion, Ying Qian seemed to have made up his decision and nodded, "And, build two at the same time, one on the east beam and one on the old beam."

Gongsun Jia thought for a long time, but still couldn't guess Ying Qian's intention.

The next day, Ying Qian summoned all the generals under his command at the southern gate tower of Dongliang. Even Gongsun Zhuang, who was originally responsible for intercepting the defeated army in Dongliang, was attracted.

As if we were mobilizing the troops, the generals thought that Ying Qian decided to launch a general attack on Dongliang again, but Ying Qian issued several orders that had nothing to do with the attack on Dongliang: "Winter is approaching, Gan Xing and Xun Xia, I will order you and the two of you to build a camp in Zhichuan so that our soldiers can survive the winter; Gongsun Zhuang, you are responsible for transporting wood to Miao Lin and Ji Liang's army, and I plan to build a military camp in the old Liang area."

The generals looked at each other, not understanding the intention of Ying Qian's move.

Logically speaking, shouldn’t they step up their attack on Shaoliang? Why did they suddenly start building camps?

"Qianshuai means... not to attack Dongliang and Old Liang for the time being?" Xun Xia asked cautiously.

Ying Qian replied casually: "Let's talk about it when the two camps are completed."

Hearing this, the generals looked at each other again.

Wait until the two camps are built? What will it take at least one month...it takes one month?

That's right, Ying Qian just wanted to spend time with Shaoliang, and it kept on going.

I wonder how many Qin army soldiers will be filled in the Dongliang quagmire pool?

Then he can't surround him and not fight?

The same is true for the three cities of Old Liang, Fanpang and Shaoliang. Since the Qin army had to pay a huge price to attack him, the Qin army simply surrounded him and did not attack, waiting for Shaoliang to collapse.

At present, the more than 100,000 citizens of Shaoliang are all crowded among the three cities of Old Liang, Fanpang and Shaoliang? It's just right!

How much food can a small country provide for these citizens?

Can you still consume more than Qin?

As long as he cut off the water and land passage between Wei and Shaoliang, the Wei State could not transport food to Shaoliang. Shaoliang would collapse if it was within three months.

When he was in charge of his energy, he sent the Qin army that had been raising energy for a long time to attack and force. If Shao Liang did not surrender, he would have to destroy his country and his race.

What's even more clever is that it is October now and the cold winter is about to enter, and even the Wei Kingdom cannot send troops to support Shaoliang in the cold winter.

After listening to Ying Qian's explanation, the generals were convinced.

"Qians are handsome and wise!"
Chapter completed!