Ji Ying is the old Ying, and Jingzhou, where the county of Qinnan County is located, is only the departure palace of the former royal palace: Zhu Palace. Ji Ying was the capital of the Chu State for hundreds of years, and more than 20 Chu kings and more nobles surnamed Mi were buried outside the city.

The initial battle plan of the Great Sima Mansion was to pull out the Jingling Tomb and go straight up to Yancheng and Dengyi along the Han River, and after pulling out Dengyi, you could build Xiangcheng and Fan Ercheng on both sides of the Han River, but the later battle plan became bigger and bigger, so whether it was from the war level or from the spiritual level, Ji Ying was indispensable.

And to pull it out, it can only be pulled out by Xiong Jing and Yingshi. Once Ji Ying is pulled out, it means that the Chu State has recovered the old Ying's hometown. Not only the Chu army, but also the Chu people in the east of Dabie Mountain will also be angry.

"How is Ji Ying?" Xiong Jing asked. Last night, the Chu army rowed overnight, and in the morning there was an inexplicable encounter with the Qin army. Today, I can only camp in Jingling, sleep peacefully, and go to Jiying tomorrow.

"Tell the king, I have sent several pawn wing warships to Ji Ying yesterday, and there will be a return tomorrow." Nao Xin replied. Ji Ying was about three hundred miles away from Jingling, and this distance would take a day or a night to march at the speed of a warship.

"Tomorrow, the minister will lead his army north." Speaking of tomorrow's events, E Junle said. Eleven divisions, minus the four divisions of the Ying division, the remaining seven divisions of more than 50,000 people will go against the Han River. "If the king is insufficient, the ministers will ......"

E Junle looked at the generals present, and everyone smiled happily. It is the glory of all divisions to be able to participate in the battle of Ji Ying, as long as Xiong Jing needs it, the soldiers under their command, and even themselves will fight hard in the battle.

"Master Ying's enough." Xiong Jing also smiled, it was not that he was unwilling to distribute the glory of recovering Ji Ying to the divisions, but that going north along the Han River was an extremely important part of the entire battle plan. Jingling to Dengyi 550 li, to Wancheng 840 li, the south road Chu army against the Han River all the way to attack the city, must arrive in Wancheng within 20 days, in order to cover the rear of the Chu army on the north road. Starting from Jingling, the Chu army advanced at least forty miles a day, although it was a waterway, but at such a speed it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a march or a battle.

"It is said that Zhu Palace is the place where the Qin people govern the county, and it is close to the river, and there are tens of thousands of tomb masters and boat divisions. The minister only hopes that the king's trip will be peaceful...... "E Junle seems to have exceeded the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, and Yingshi is good at fighting, but he is worried that Xiong Jing will have an accident.

"Ahem...... "Right Shi Qing coughed, and when he heard the cough, E Junle stopped and didn't say anything." The heart of the minister, the sun and the moon can be seen. E Junle couldn't get his words up to his senses, so he could only keep nodding at Xiong Jing.

"It doesn't matter." Xiong Jing said it not only to E Junle, but also to others. He didn't care if the Qin people in Jingzhou knew that the Chu army was attacking, but he wanted them to know that they were attacking, that they had gathered countless soldiers, that they would set up impregnable city defenses, and then, everything would be crushed and completely shattered by themselves.

In fact, the anger in his heart could not be vented. He hated the Qin people, especially every Qin person who didn't belong here but moved here, and each of them represented sin in his eyes. He even wanted to raise his sword and kill from the east gate of Jingling City to the west gate of Jingling City, and cut off all the heads of these people. But he is a king, and he should not do these things.

Heavy breathing, sleepless rainy nights, he made the servant singing an ancient, incomprehensible Chu song, and then fell asleep in the song. On the second day, the sky was about to dawn, and the two Chu armies pulled out their camps and advanced. The advantage of a five-oared winged warboat over a three-oared large-wing warboat is that five oarsmen can row faster for a short period of time, or maintain a rowing speed of 50 miles per hour for longer. At this speed, a voyage of 300 miles can be reached in only six hours.

Seeing that he didn't meet Zhou Ji along the way, Xiong Jing guessed that Jingzhou had received an alarm of an enemy attack, but it was also possible that the pawn wing warboat that went to investigate frightened the Qin people. Paddled until the afternoon, and when it was time to go out of Jinglingze, the reconnaissance winged warboat appeared in front.

"How are the Qin people?" Xiong Jing looked at the scouts who had fallen inside the shogunate.

"The Qin people have been equipped." The winged warship carried the horses, and the knights circled Gangneung. "The gate of Jingzhou is closed, and it is not allowed to pass without a county guard. However, the Qin people did not know where our army came from, so they defended on both sides. ”

"Oh." Xiong Jing didn't speak, just wiped his saber. Zhuang Wudi and the other strategists were very concerned about the scout's words. "How many pawns are there in the city? Geometric ...... of grain"

The city defense map of Jiangling City has long been placed on several cases of Xiong Jing, but some things that have changed cannot be completely determined, which is what Zhuang Wudi and others want to know. There was information from the scouts to reconnoiter on their own, and more information from inside the city, and based on this information, everyone had a clear understanding of the situation in Gangneung.

After all, Jiangling is a place of county governance, and it is bordered by the Great River in the south, and there are no less than 30,000 Qin troops stationed here. As the former ship official of the Chu State, most of the more than 30,000 Qin soldiers were boat masters. The Chu army attacked Nanjun on a large scale, and thousands of residents in the city had been conscripted, and there should be more than 10,000 people in one household, and the strength of the army was not under the Yingshi but exceeded the Yingshi. If the Qin people go out of the city for a decisive battle, it will be fine, but if they don't go out, the 30,000 Yingshi will face a tragic street battle.

"With the ministers, the Qin people will not go to war." Zhuang Wudi said after consulting with the advisers.

"That's a street fight." Xiong Jing doesn't care, he likes street fighting. Just this war likes.

"If it is a street battle, our army will ......" The strategists are worried about casualties, if the battle is won, the casualties will be more than 1,000 people, or even hundreds of people, and the casualties in the street battle must be several times this number. Especially in Jiangling City, there are all Qin people, and the Chu army wants to kill all the Qin people, and the resistance will be very tenacious.

"What about street fighting?" Yang Yu glanced at the rest of the division commanders. "Our army's formations are complicated, so there is no joy of fighting, it is better to fight, street fighting, swinging a sword and slashing to kill!"

"In this way, the casualties of our army will increase several times." Zhan Li is also in the shogunate, and he wants to follow Xiong Jing to the death, worried that Xiong Jing will lose in the battle formation. With a word, he pushed Yang Yu back, and he said again: "There are only more than 1,000 women in Shaxian Chu, and this place is far away from the Chu realm, and the casualties of the generals are too great, how can we continue their heirs?" Take Qin Nuhu? ”

"If the Qin people don't fight, our army will only have to break the city and fight in the streets." Xiong Jing spoke. "Gangneung will be pulled out in two days at most. In this way, the Yingshi can catch up with the masters. At this time, since the sky is not dark, then send a war letter and invite the Qin people to fight tomorrow. If you don't fight, you surrender. If you don't surrender, you will die! After Xiong Jing finished speaking, the saber stabbed on the case, and the tip of the sword penetrated the case an inch and quickly retracted.

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As a general, Tengqi naturally knew that it was impossible for him to lead the troops again. Since he is a general, he may rebel against Qin at any time, and what he hopes is to do something in Nanjun so as to be praised by the king of Qin. The King of Qin also needs a newcomer, a person outside the system to rectify the Nanjun that has accumulated defects for a long time, just like when Shang Ying changed the law in the Qin State, only outsiders will not be stumped by the original relationship, so they can swing a knife and get rid of some characters who should have been eliminated a long time ago but have not been eliminated.

Unfortunately, less than three months after taking office, Tengqi's mission came to an end. The Chu army attacked Nanjun in a big way, and Yang Xiong was defeated by the Chu army in Jingling. He fled quickly, and he also knew that his chariot could not outrun the Chu warboat pursuing on the water, so he rode a horse a few miles north, and rushed towards Jingzhou with a few generals.

Teng Qi didn't believe the news that the king of Chu appeared in Jingling, but Yang Xiong was so embarrassed and knocked on the Jingzhou gate late at night It was definitely not a joke. The Chu army attacked in a big way, and in the first battle, it defeated the 50,000 soldiers recruited by itself, if the Chu army did not go north but went west towards itself......

Teng Qi is a military general, he has seen the Chu State's weapon of breaking the city, if the Chu army does not go north and west, then Jiangling will be pulled out by the Chu army. After making this judgment, the first thing he did was to quickly mobilize the soldiers and grain in the nearby cities, the second thing he did was to send messengers to all sides to ask for help to report to Xianyang, and finally he urgently summoned soldiers in the city to strengthen the city defense and strictly guard against Chu spies.

Jiangling is not the capital, it is just a new city built on the basis of the Zhu Palace of Chu State ten miles away after the Jinan City was burned down by the Qin army, because of the important strategic location and it could not be moved to another place. For more than forty years after that, it was the Qin state that suppressed the Chu state, and it was only in the last few years that the Chu state threatened the Qin state. However, the proposal of the former county warden Mishan to increase the city defense was discussed for several years, and the three-foot-high city was not increased by one foot.

At dusk, the rain that had been coming for days suddenly stopped, and the sky full of lead clouds finally showed its last rays, and the blood was as red as blood. At this time, the battle book of the Chu army was sent up by the soldiers. Although only twelve words are written on it, it is unceremonious:

Tomorrow's War. Surrender without a fight. Death or Death!

"What else do Jing people say?" Tengqi's heart sank, the war book was murderous, and he was likely to die here.

"Jing Renyan: Please keep Wang En in mind and don't intervene in Jing Qin's affairs." The soldier told each other.

"Big fallacy! I am a Qin minister, always remember the grace of the king, why don't you mind the matter of Jing Qin? Tench smiled, his smile a little stiff. He was a general, and as soon as he learned that the Chu army was attacking, the county lieutenant Zuo Fu and others looked at him with a wary look.

"The Jing people's formation has changed for no reason, and our army must not go out of the city to fight!" Yang Xiong, the general of the defeated army, shook his head vigorously after hearing the battle book. He had never seen the Dance of the Queue, and the Chu Army Formation that evolved from the Dance of the Queue was like a living creature with a will, which could change its shape at will. To fight such an enemy, he would rather stay in the city until he starved to death.

"Our army never goes out of the city to fight." Teng Qi said loudly, looking at the county lieutenant Zuo Fu and the generals beside him.

"However, our army does not go out of the city to fight with the station, and the Jing people have the tools to break the city." Zuo Fu frowned.

"For today's plan, our army should first dig trenches and set up barriers in the city, even if the Jing people break through the outer city, our army can retreat to the inner city." Fan Kuandao. After saying that, he couldn't help but shake his head. Compared with the city of Jinan, which is ten miles away, Gangneung is too small, so small that the circumference of the city is less than twenty miles, and the inner city is only five miles. With such a small city, once the outer city is broken, the inner city can only sit and wait to die.