Geng Cheng just left, and he left in a hurry, leaving Shen Chong with 10,000 troops.
But Shen Zong was not happy at all about this opportunity to lead troops.
After returning to his residence, his subordinates also followed him. They poured him tea and said, "General, what should we do now?"
"What else can we do?" Shen Zong smiled bitterly: "We can only establish a line of defense first and take it one step at a time."
"Then do we really want to fight the Qin army?" His subordinates said with a guilty conscience: "Shiba's 30,000 people were wiped out by 5,000 Qin soldiers in one battle. If we really fight, we 10,000 people will not be able to stop them at all. ah."
"Alas." Shen Zong sighed: "I originally surrendered to the Central Plains, but the big leader insisted on fighting this war in order to gain great benefits, but the Emperor of Qin would not pay attention to him."
He was beginning to feel dissatisfied and inexplicably irritable.
Dadongcheng.
Geng Chenggang hurried all the way and came back quickly.
As he said, his brother was in charge of the main city and had gathered some more troops for him.
Most of these people are servants and slaves, contributed by some wealthy people and clan leaders, about thirty thousand.
It seems that there are a lot of people, but the fighting power is hard to describe. To say that they are fighting is better to say that they are being threatened and coerced.
In this way, plus the 10,000 soldiers Geng Chenggang originally brought back, the number of men in his hands surged to 40,000 again.
Then he left a few thousand people to his brother to continue to control Dadong City, while he personally led more than 30,000 people and drove non-stop to the west of Dadong, preparing to block Yang Heng again.
Looking at the entire battle situation, the Qin army's offensive was so fast that Geng Chenggang had to tear down the east and mend the west. He looked around in panic, but he never achieved any effective resistance.
This time Geng Chenggang placed the blocking area at Gujialan, which is only more than a hundred miles away from Dadong City and is the only way for the Qin army to pass. It is equivalent to the last barrier.
And according to the speed of the Qin army's advance, when he led his troops to guard Gu Jialan, the opponent was almost about to break in here.
On the way, Geng Chenggang was riding a war horse with a map in his hand. He was still studying it and decided in his heart that he must defeat Yang Heng in Gujialan.
But just because he wants to fight, it doesn't mean that others also want to fight. Most of this team is coerced.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a large amount of chaos to appear behind the team. Then, a Dongyi general rode up and said urgently: "It's not good, chief, many people took advantage of the laxity to escape from the team. "
"Bold!" Geng Chenggang was furious and pulled the reins: "Catch these people and execute them all! Don't let any of them escape!"
"yes!"
The people who escaped this time were all slaves. Although the number was not very large, there were still several hundred. Under Geng Chenggang's order, they were all captured not long after.
In order to punish the deserters and scare others, Geng Chenggang made the slaves kneel in several rows, ride horses in front, walk back and forth, and shouted: "We are marching to fight, but we actually ran away without fighting and abandoned our master!"
"I need to know your identities!"
"Only by following me and defeating the Qin army can you be free!"
"Otherwise, not only will you be slaves! Your descendants and descendants will also be slaves!"
"Execute them all!"
Following his order, the Dongyi soldiers beheaded the hundreds of people who fled in front of everyone, with blood splattering all over the floor.
"This is what you get for betraying me!"
Geng Chenggang stared around for a week and was quite satisfied with the effect.
People's faces changed, including panic, unwillingness, fear, and other emotions.
Under this kind of shock, sure enough, no more escapes occurred throughout the day.
But at night, the situation changed drastically.
"Geng Chenggang is forcing us to die."
"Yes, the Qin army is well-trained and battle-hardened. We are just ordinary slaves. How can we survive on the battlefield?"
"He said that we can only regain our freedom by following him and defeating the Qin army."
"Geng Chenggang will definitely die in the hands of the Qin army. We still have time to escape now, but we will be free later."
"Want to escape?"
"But those who escaped in front were executed by Geng Chenggang. If they were caught,"
"Anyway, both sides are dead. If you go to the battlefield, can you survive against the Qin army? You might as well run away and fight to have a chance of survival."
"Run, take advantage of the night"
It was the murmur of slaves, and not just in one place.
Geng Chenggang likes to talk about numbers, but these people are not even a mob.
Soon, there was movement, instantly triggering a chain reaction.
"Come here! A slave has escaped!"
"Catch them quickly!"
"stop!"
"Run! Everyone, run quickly, now, if you don't run, you won't have a chance!"
"Run quickly"
Deserters were like a plague, spreading throughout the temporary camp in an instant.
Throughout the scene, there were people shouting for arrest, shouting for escape, and shouting to disperse. There were all kinds of sounds.
Of course, there were those who chased and stabbed people with spears, and there were slaves who resisted. They worked together to beat the Dongyi soldiers to death and ran away.
All in all, it was a big mess.
Geng Chenggang was naturally awakened. He was holding a sword and was chasing and slashing wildly, killing blood everywhere. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Who dares to run away! Who dares to run away!"
The chaos lasted for a long time, and it was not until daylight that it became completely peaceful.
There were already many corpses in the entire temporary camp, spreading along various escape routes.
A large number of slaves were led to their knees.
There is no doubt that the furious Geng Chenggang executed these escapees again.
After some inspection, more than 30,000 horses and horses were in chaos, and only about 20,000 were left.
After getting this result, Geng Chenggang's face became gloomy. He held a bloody sword and once again gave a pre-battle lecture.
Among the remaining people who were held hostage, some were completely frightened, while others felt regretful for not following them and escaping last night, but now there was no chance.
Of the remaining 20,000 people, it was a credit to the 10,000 Dongyi soldiers who calmed down the situation, otherwise all of them would have fled in this chaos.
Afterwards, Geng Chenggang reorganized his troops and rushed to Gujialan.
Three days later, a basic defense line was built at four key points in Gujialan.
Geng Chenggang's military ability is definitely not as good as that of the battle-hardened generals of the Qin Army, but it is still much better than Shi Ba.
After taking the lead in occupying the main transportation road, he also sent out a large number of sentries, hoping to keep track of the Qin army's movements at any time.
He quickly came back to investigate. On this day, Geng Chenggang was studying a defensive plan in front of the map. A Dongyi soldier ran in quickly:
"Report~~~"
"I report to the great leader that the Qin army has been detected and is less than twenty miles away."
"The Qin army is so fast." Geng Chenggang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Tell all the troops to be on guard. As long as the four strongholds I have set up are blocked, the Qin army will retreat without a fight."
"Yes!" Dongyi soldiers took the order and left. (End of chapter)
