Fighting is a skill, and fighting before a war is an art. The power of gunpowder frightened the Qin people, and the whole army was angry, and now the Chu army has led the focus of the battle to Lantian City. Is Lantian City important? It was not important to the Qin and Chu armies.

Attacking Bailuyuan from the east side, the Qin army wants to attack a mile from the back, and the soldiers will be unilaterally slaughtered by the Chu army if they do not wear armor...... Before he went up, he estimated that he would be tired or injured by the heavy arrows of the Chu army.

The truly sensible direction of attack for the Qin army was to the north. The thin Chu army could not prevent the Qin army from ascending from the north, and the Qin army could calmly line up and press south. That shallow ravine was not an obstacle, and the Qin army had to pull down the city wall several zhang high.

What is really worrying is that Bailuyuan is divided by Changshui, and for a time the Qin army cannot bypass Changshui (which requires walking fifty or sixty miles), and the width of the listed military array is limited, only when the Qin army bypasses Changshui tomorrow and appears west of Changshui, then the Chu army will be completely surrounded. The long water source comes out of the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, and the wider and deeper the waterway is to the north, which can be well crossed at the source in the south.

As for the Yuanxia Rim Chuankou, which Zhao Yang and others wanted to attack, this was indeed the throat of the Chu army, and once the logistics of the Chu army were captured, even if they were not defeated, they would have to withdraw. The problem is that only the Qin people are smart in the world, and the strategists of the Great Sima Mansion of Jing State and the generals of King Jing are all fools? It's all bought and given away? How can such an important place not be heavy with equipment?

After not sleeping all night, Wei Yi thought about the entire battle plan of the Qin army very thoroughly, he urged Zhao Zheng to climb the White Deer Plateau from the north, but Zhao Zheng did not listen, not to go north but to the south, he wanted to witness Zhao Yang lead his troops to attack the mouth of the rim river valley.

If this was a mistake by the Qin army, then it was the wisdom of the Chu army's shogunate strategists to direct the focus of the war to the meaningless Lantian City.

Allowing the Chu army to occupy Lantian will be even more demoralized by the Qin army, which has been deprived of witch weapons, but if you want to seize Lantian, you must send elite soldiers to attack in an all-round way. And these soldiers could have attacked the mouth of the valley of the rim or the north of the earthen plateau.

In addition to the loss of elite soldiers, there is also time to lose. Last night, when the rooster crowed, the thunder was no longer heard at the mouth of the rim river, which means that the Chu army had dug open the mouth of the rim river, and a large number of baggage, grain, and vehicles were gushing from the mouth of the rim river. If the focus of the two armies is the worthless Lantian, it will naturally delay and block the transportation of the Chu army.

Wei Yi knows how powerful it is, but he can't change the status quo. Even if he didn't advise Zhao Zheng to hold Lantian, the young and vigorous Zhao Zheng would order Yang Duanhe to take Lantian.

Wei Yi was helpless, Zhuang Wudi and the others who were watching the battle on the White Deer Plateau couldn't help but laugh on their faces, Xiong Jing was also laughing, but the smile was faint. He still hasn't recovered from yesterday's setbacks, and now he has a kind of trance, so much so that every time he thinks about something and does something, he deliberately examines himself: is he still thinking about problems with the thinking of ordinary people? Is it still measured by success or failure? If it is, it's cheap.

The lowly in his heart is not a derogatory term, there is nothing wrong with being lowly, as a commoner, what should he consider if he doesn't consider gains and losses? But for kings, it should not be just about success or failure.

Xiong Jing smiled lightly, and Zhuang Wudi, who breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, said goodbye to him, and Xiong Jing stopped him: "When will you fight?" ”

"Or fight until mid-day." Zhuang replied without land. "Or maybe the Qin people trapped the soldiers and climbed to the top of the city, and the morale of the whole army was greatly boosted."

"Oh?" Xiong Jing was slightly stunned. He only remembered these words now, and Zhuang Wudi had said them before. The purpose of directing the focus of the battle to the worthless Lantian City is, of course, to stall for time. Every moment of delay, dozens of carriages left the Rim River.

The strategists wished that the battle for Lantian would become more and more fierce, and in Xiong Jing's understanding, this was a miniature version of the Battle of Verdun. A meaningless battle for the sake of breath, in which millions of people were killed and wounded on both sides.

"Rest." Xiong Jing nodded, motioning for Zhuang Wudi to retreat and rest. "The plan of the Qing and others is very good."

The Chu army has been advancing, and the strategists, law calculations, astronomy, and geography in the shogunate have not slept for several days and nights, and Zhuang Wudi's sleepy and rickety body immediately straightened up when he heard Xiong Jing's praise, and he bowed to Xiong Jing again and retreated with joy.

"The Qin people are also scheming!" Nao Xin is only in charge of intelligence, and he is still standing by Xiong Jing's side.

"Not necessarily." At the foot of the White Deer Plateau, the unarmored Qin army crossed Bashui to Lantian City, and in the upper reaches of Bashui, the Qin army that crossed Bashui had lined up a wide military formation in the south of Bashui, waiting for the order to attack.

This Qin army sat quietly, obviously not the same kind of people as those Qin soldiers who were frightened by the explosion. Perhaps, the Qin generals will wait for the Qin army to take Lantian City before ordering them to advance towards the mouth of the Gongchuan River; Perhaps, General Qin will not wait for the results on the Lantian side, as long as the boat master assumes a pontoon bridge on the water of the Gongchuan River, he will order them to advance.

Of course, Xiong Jing is not worried about them, what he is really worried about is the north and west. Because of the long distance to the north, the Qin army is still assembling in formation, and once the formation is over, they will press like a road roller. Then there is the west of Changshui, if a Qin army takes the risk of forcibly crossing Changshui and detouring from the west, then the Chu army will be passive.

On the White Deer Plateau, Xiong Jing looked around the entire battlefield, and at this time, cheers came from Lantian City - the soldiers who attacked Lantian City found the royal car that Zhao Zheng had discarded yesterday, and they excitedly wanted to push it out of the blast and show off as their own capture. However, the blast hole was not flat, and the empty car with broken bearings was stuck in the breach, and it couldn't be pulled out.

The appearance of the royal car once again made the Chu soldiers excited, the royal car was colorful, this was the king's car, and the Qin army was breathless for a while, Zhao Zheng's face was hot, he had a secret taboo: his own things are forbidden to be turned over by wives and concubines, close servants, and his own thoughts are even more forbidden to be speculated by servants and officials. This behavior does not make him feel offended, but it makes him feel unsafe.

At present, the sergeant of Chu pushed out his abandoned car yesterday, and his color changed instantly: "Order Yang Duanhe to recapture the king's car." ”

"The Great King ......" heard Zhao Zheng's royal order, and Wei Yi was shocked.

"The king has an order, take back the king's chariot!" The king's command soon spread.

"The king has an order, take back the king's chariot!" Soon, the king's order reached the west of Bashui and to the ears of Xia Yang.

Last night's night attack failed, because of Xia Yang's rescue, the eighteen-man trap team lost only five people, which was the least loss of all the attack trap teams. So it is that the thirteen who are alive are still guilty. They had to cut off the heads of the five thorns before the account could be smoothed out. Now, the trappers, who had just taken a break, were sent to the battlefield again.

"King Che?" Yesterday afternoon, he was laughed at by Black Beard, and he asked him to wash his buttocks. Because of the cover of the city wall, the trappers could not see the king chariot in the south of the city, and could only see the Jingren military flag waving in the wind at the head of Lantian City - a three-headed colorful phoenix embroidered on the white silk.

"It's the king's chariot." The ladder cart was still crossing the river, and the military officials were handing out drinks. Xia Yang, who learned some bandaging and rescue techniques from Dachu News, is helping Black Whisker to bandage his wounds. "Yesterday the king went out of the city, and the king's chariot was lost in the city, and now I am afraid that it will be obtained by the Jing people."

"So, there is no head to recapture the king's chariot?" All I think about is the head.

"None." Xia Yang replied, and the drum sounded suddenly. The heavily armored Qin soldiers were already in formation, and they no longer waited for the ladder cart to attack the city, but turned to the south of the city to grab the king's chariot.

The nature of the trappers was actually light infantry, and because they were not armoured, the casualty rate was extremely high. Their role is first of all to attack quickly, and to move quickly without armor, and secondly, to cooperate with the heavy infantry in the army formation, cover their gaps and flanks, and attack the enemy's flaws.

However, the tactics of the Qin army were deeply influenced by the military merit awarding system, in order to grab the first rank, the soldiers were accustomed to fighting in scattered formations, and the light infantry, which was supposed to assist the heavy infantry in combat, ran to the front because they were not wearing armor. This became Zhang Yi's mouth, 'Qin people donate armor to the enemy, take people's heads on the left, and take prisoners on the right'.

For the army of Han and Wei, you can scatter and fight for the first rank, but for the Chu army, you can only fight in formation. Amid the drums, the black face and the thirteen members of his team stood in front of the armor soldiers, and everyone waited for the order to attack while pouring wine with their heads up.

"Attack!" It didn't take long for the hundred generals behind the array to shout, and the military formation, which was about a mile wide and seventy lines deep, began to advance southward.

'Boom-' There was a cannon sound on the hill, because across Lantian City, this cannonball flew over everyone's heads with a sharp roar. Previously, because of the cover of Lantian City, they were not ravaged by the artillery fire of the Chu army, and it was different to advance southward, with more than 30,000 armor soldiers and more than 3,000 trapped soldiers exposing the whole general to the Chu army's artillery.

"Put! Put ——! "The smoke of gunpowder was thick on the White Deer Plateau, and the artillery of the two battalions had long been put in line. Before the Qin army left Lantian City, the artillery commander opened fire and test-fired. One after another, shells flew out, some farther fell into Bashui, and some closer hit in front of the Chu army.

The thunder and the whistling shells, even knowing that the artillerymen were not hitting themselves, the shells were just flying over their heads, and the palms and vests of the soldiers waiting in line to get close were all sweaty, and some of them even peed their pants.

The Qin army, who had just walked out of the cover of Lantian City, failed to appreciate this fear, and a thirty-two-pound cannonball swept behind Xia Yang, and after landing, it bounced up slowly, piercing through the entire horizontal team that was neatly arranged.

Xia Yang was left behind because of the protection of his comrades, but this protection almost killed him, and the passing cannonballs were only a few feet away from him. He didn't know anything until he was sprayed with a back of blood. When I looked back, I saw that the armor soldiers behind him fell to the ground disemboweled, and their colorful intestines and internal organs flowed all over the ground.

His scalp immediately twitched and tingled, and he couldn't make any sound when he wanted to shout. At this time, another 32-pound cannonball also found this angle, and in the slow bounce, the cannonball once again swept through the Qin army's queue of more than 400 meters, leaving a place of severed limbs and remnants.