Early in the morning of October 12, Ying Qian came to Dongliang again. Gongsun Jia, who learned the news, went out of the city to greet him.

At this time, the Qin army had fully controlled the Dongliang, which made Ying Qian feel very good. When he saw Gongsun Jia, he joked: "In order to capture this city, my Qin army really paid a lot of money..."

Gongsun Jia bowed and praised: "It depends entirely on the clan's wonderful strategy, otherwise I don't know how many soldiers would have to be sacrificed."

Ying Qian nodded slightly complacently, and then asked Gongsun Jia: "What's the situation in the city?"

Gongsun Jia replied: "The people of Shaoliang retreated in a hurry. Although they set off a few fires before leaving, the damage was not serious. Less than 30% of the houses were destroyed..."

Ying Qian nodded with satisfaction.

Although a Dongliang City is not enough to have more than 100,000 Qin troops stationed here, at least he can live in a roofed house and no longer have to live in a tent.

Around Chen hour, when Ying Qian was picking up his residence in the city, a Qin army came to report: "General Zhou Hua sent someone to report that last night, Zhiyang defenders burned the city and retreated. General Zhou Hua sent people to pursue him and occupied Zhiyang at the same time."

"ha!"

Ying Qian was even happier and said to Gongsun Jia beside him with a smile: "Shaoliang people are very smart and very cognitive. Knowing that Dongliang has lost, it will be useless to defend Zhiyang again, so they simply abandoned Zhiyang..."

Gongsun Jia knew Ying Qian’s preferences and praised him with his preferences: “After all, Shaoliang people are the same clan as me, Qin people, so it’s not surprising that they have such insights…”

He seemed to be praising the Shaoliang people, but in fact he was praising the Qin people because he knew Ying Qian was so good.

Sure enough, Ying Qian became more and more happy and said casually: "Yuanli should have abandoned the guards... Our Qin army paid a lot of money, and now we can occupy the three cities of Yuanli, Dongliang and Zhiyang. We can finally explain to Liyang."

The Liyang he mentioned was the current capital of Qin.

"It all depends on the wonderful strategy of the grandmaster." Gongsun Jia complimented again.

As noon approached, Ying Qian received the message sent by Miao Lin.

The Qin soldiers sent to Ying Qian respectfully said: "... Last night, our army was attacked by the Dongliang army. Although General Miao Lin reacted quickly, he was still penetrated by the Dongliang army. However, this Dongliang army did not fight with our army. After breaking through the garrison, they crossed the water and retreated to Liangcheng. The casualties of our army were not serious."

"Didn't the people I sent arrive?" Ying Qian asked with a frown.

The soldier explained: "The envoy came one step late. When the envoy arrived at the camp, our army had been attacked by the Dongliang Army. Later, General Miao released the shareholder Liang Army through the Qingshui as commanded by General Qian..."

"Oh." Ying Qian nodded slightly, without saying anything more.

It turned out that when he guessed that Dongliang was about to abandon the city and retreat, he had sent someone to issue an order to Miao Lin and Ji Liang, saying that the second general did not have to be too entangled with the Liang army of this shareholder, and simply let him cross the river to consume the grain of the old Liang. After all, he had decided to use the method of siege to force Shaoliang to surrender, so it was not very meaningful to stop killing the Liang defeated army of this shareholder. Instead of deepening the hatred between the Shaoliang people and the Qin people again, it would be better to let the other party cross the river and further aggravate the food consumption of the Shaoliang Kingdom, which would also force Shaoliang to surrender to him earlier.

Unexpectedly, the person he sent to pass the order last night did not bring the order in time, so that Miao Lin and Ji Liang's army were attacked by the defeated army of Dongliang without knowing anything. If Ying Qian had not been in a good mood at this moment, the envoys would have been unable to escape and die.

On that day, Ying Qian issued two more orders, one was to order the Qin general Zhou Hua, who occupied Zhiyang, to divide his troops to capture Yuanli; the other was to order Miao Lin and Ji Lianger in the old Liang area to continue to build camps in the area, and the others were ignored.

After the order was issued, he wrote a battle report in the house to be sent to Liyang. A while ago, the Qin army suffered heavy losses but could not defeat a Dongliang city. He really had no face to tell Liyang. Now that the Qin army captured Dongliang, Zhiyang and Yuanli cities in one breath, he finally saved some face and would not be scolded by Liyang again.

He was not afraid of being scolded by the person in Liyang Palace. After all, the person in Liyang Palace was his brother. He was worried that he was the one with the surname Wei, and he was afraid of being ridiculed by that guy behind his back.

When Ying Qian thought of that person, he became angry.

Eight days later, on October 21, Qin general Miao Lin sent someone to report to Ying Qian that he had built a village in the Weishui camp.

So Ying Qian ordered Gongsun Jia to take charge of Dongliang and block the Dongliang Ferry, while he took Gongsun Zhuang's army all the way to Old Liang.

As for Ganxing, Xun Xia and other generals continued to build a camp on the Zhichuan Plain.

After about half a day, Ying Qian and Gongsun Zhuang led their troops to Miao Lin's Qin Camp in the Weishui.

Miao Lin, who learned the news in advance, hurried out to greet her.

"Where is Ji Liang?"

"Ji Liang is in Fanpang." Miao Lin explained: "Qian Shuai ordered us to block the ferry of Fanpang. We dare not neglect it. After receiving the order, Ji Liang led his army to Fanpang. Now he is stationed at the ferry in Fanpang area to ensure that the connection between Shaoliang and Wei State was cut off."

"very good."

Ying Qian nodded with satisfaction and asked Gongsun Zhuang to order the soldiers to join the camp, and then followed Miao Lin to the commander's tent prepared in advance.

After entering the tent of the coach, Ying Qian frowned and looked at it a few times. He seemed not very satisfied, but he didn't say anything. He sat in the main seat and asked Miao Lin, "What has happened to the old beam in recent days?"

Miao Lin shook her head and said, "There is no abnormal movement...unless those young Liang soldiers are still attacking our soldiers day and night."

"snort!"

Ying Qian snorted lightly: "Let the soldiers take strict precautions, and the rest are ignored."

In fact, he valued Shaoliang's surprise soldiers very much, but it is undeniable that the number of Shaoliang's surprise soldiers was too small, so few that Ying Qian could tolerate the continuous bleeding of this elite force to him the Qin army - as long as Shaoliang finally surrendered to him, Qin State, then this loss was nothing.

Soon, Gongsun Zhuang also came to the commander's tent.

After Ying Qian signaled him to take his seat, Gongsun Zhuang clasped his fists and asked, "I don't know what arrangements Qian Shuai will make next?... Although Qian Shuai's plan is clever, he can't let the soldiers do nothing, right?"

Indeed, people cannot be idle, otherwise they will become lazy, and the same is true for the army. Even if Ying Qian does not intend to attack Shaoliang again, he will never make the army under his command become lazy.

Thinking of this, Ying Qian ordered people to take the map of Shaoliang and discuss it with Gongsun Zhuang and Miao Lin.

He asked Miao Lin, "Have the defeated troops of Dongliang and Zhiyang's defeated troops retreated into Liangcheng?"

"It should be." Miao Lin nodded.

Ying Qian touched his beard and said, "In this case, Liangcheng may have at least 20,000 defenders..."

As he said that, he glanced at Fanpang on the map and asked, "How many defenders are there in Fanpang?"

Miao Lin shook her head and said, "I don't know, Ji Liang has never tested Fanpang's reality."

Ying Qian said seriously: "Call Ji Liang to test it. If Fanpang's troops are insufficient, take it down first to further ensure that the Wei State cannot transport food at least Liang. As for Gongsun Zhuang, if you build another camp here, I will call him Gan Xing, and Xun Xia and others will transport wood for you."

He pointed to the junction of the three cities of Shaoliang, Oldliang and Fanpang on the map.

"Is Qianshuo trying to cut off the connection between the three cities? I will understand!" Gongsun Zhuang nodded solemnly.

The next day, Gongsun Zhuang led his troops to cross the river with the Qingshui and stationed at the junction of Shaoliang, Laoliang and Fanpang. At the same time, Miao Lin also sent troops to move the remaining wood from the construction camp to the other side for Gongsun Zhuang's army to build the camp on site.

The Qin army's unconcealed actions were naturally visible to the old Liang.

Dongliang Jun, Zhai Hu, Xia Yang Jun, Li He, Wang Zheng and others who received the news all climbed the East City Wall and looked at Gongsun Zhuangjun in the distance outside the city.

Dongliang Jun sighed and said, "It seems that the Qin army is going to cut off the connection between the old Liang, Shaoliang and Fanpang three cities, and further besiege my Shaoliang..."

Li He, Zhai Hu, Xia Yangjun and others frowned.

Since retreating to the Old Liang, everyone has been discussing whether the Qin army would take advantage of the situation to attack the Old Liang, but today the Qin army's actions clearly told them that the Qin army would continue to deal with the Dong Liang, continue to siege, and force the old Liang and even the entire Shaoliang to collapse.

To be honest, this is indeed a clever way to make the old Liang helpless.

During the silence, Wang Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "It really doesn't work. Let's take the initiative to fight against these Qin people!"

Hearing this, Wei Zhu immediately said, "I would like to be a pioneer!"

However, Dongliang Jun, Xiayang Jun, Zhai Hu, and Li He didn't say a word.

"Calm down." Zhai Hu glanced at the two of them and advised: "My Shaoliang is the weak side. Only by relying on the city wall can you resist the Qin army's offensive. Now you two want to abandon the city wall and go out to fight with the Qin army?"

Wang Zheng said indignantly: "But the Qin army has clearly shown that it will not attack the city. They will trap me Shaoliang to death! If you don't take the initiative to attack, will you sit and wait for death?"

Everyone was silent.

Of course they were unwilling to sit and wait for death, but the question was, what could they do if they defeated Gongsun Zhuangjun?

The Miao Lin army and Gongsun Zhuang army here are only two of the nearly 200,000 Qin troops. Even if they are stationed in Fanpang, these three Qin troops are less than half of the total strength of the Qin army. Even if they pay a huge price to severely damage the Qin army, when the other half of the Qin army arrives, they will still be forced into the city by the Qin army, which is not enough to reverse the situation.

After a long time, Dong Liangjun sighed: "Drag the Qin army as much as possible..."

As he said that he tacitly agreed to the suggestions of Wang Zheng and Wei Zhu.

Three days after that, Wang Zheng and Wei Zhu often led their troops out of the city to harass Gongsun Zhuang's army to build camps. At night, the surprise troops led by Li He continued to attack, but Gongsun Zhuang ignored them and only focused on building camps. The old Liang continued to harass the day and night, but in the end, it could not delay the speed of Gongsun Zhuang's army's construction camps.

Even the Qin army launched an attack on Fanpang City, which had weak garrisons, which shocked and worried the old Liang.

On the night of October 25, Zhai Hu, Li He, Wei Zhu, Wu Kang, Zhang Ben and others were cooking wine and drinking on the south gate tower.

After drinking three bowls of wine in a row, Zhai Hu sighed, "I'm afraid I can't stand it this time..."

"Master Zhai Hu." Wei Zhu's expression changed slightly, and he looked out of the building uneasy, worried that Zhai Hu's remarks would affect the morale in the city.

But Zhai Hu was just a little drunk, so he didn't know what Wei Zhu was worried about. He shook his head and said, "Are you afraid of damaging morale? What are you afraid of?... Even the Qin army admitted that my Shaoliang's tenacity, are you afraid of damaging the morale of the soldiers?"

Hearing this, the generals sighed.

In fact, since the Eastern Liang defenders retreated into the Old Liang City, the morale in the Old Liang City was very high, but the problem was that the Qin army did not attack the city, which made the soldiers who were already holding their energy have the strength but nowhere to work - they couldn't really take the initiative as Wang Zheng said, right?

During this period, Li He drank silently without saying a word.

Noting Li He's actions, Wu Kang asked curiously: "Li He, what are you thinking?"

Li He put down the wine bowl when he heard this and said thoughtfully: "The Qin army surrounded me but did not attack, intending to trap me Shaoliang to death. If this continues, I Shaoliang will definitely be dragged by him until the moment the food is exhausted... I have an idea in my mind, I don't know whether it is feasible."

This aroused the interest of everyone here, and even Zhai Hu looked at Li He with some surprise: "What do you think?"

Li He looked around everyone and said in a low voice: "Attack Liyang, capture the King of Qin alive, and force Qin to retreat."

"hiss--"

Everyone took a breath of air conditioning and looked at Li He in horror.
Chapter completed!