The winter nights are always very long, and after the heavy night falls, Pan Wu's left army is the first to pull out the camp, and even if the 60,000-strong team does not raise fire, it is still mighty under the stars and moon. From time to time, there was the sound of horses galloping and knights galloping around the camp, which were the ubiquitous Qin army scouts, some of whom were not far away and followed the left army, and others chose to return to the camp to report the news.

After a long time, he has become accustomed to the martial knights of the Qin army, the Chu army, which seems to be like a swarm of lingering flies, rushing away, unable to drive away; Kill, kill endlessly. With them, the Qin army can know any move of the Chu army at the first moment, but it is extremely difficult for the Chu army to understand the situation of the Qin army. At this moment, not long after the left army of the Chu army pulled out the camp, Meng Wu of the Qin army camp in Yiyi got the news, and he was not panicked but a little happy: the Jing people finally went north to bite the hook.

It's a pity that the Chu army continued to open the camp and advance to the north at night, and the cavalry saw a large flow of people in the dark, and it was not clear how many people were going north, and when they reported again in the middle of the night, the news had become 'most of the Jing people went out of the camp, and the number is unknown', but at this time Meng Wu had already ordered 'except for the Jing people to attack the camp and Xianyang to make envoys, no one should wake up the general'.

Meng Wu's move is extremely normal, the big battle is imminent, and the main general needs to rest enough to arrange his troops and lead his troops to fight. This is not hundreds of years ago, when the battle was not so much a battle as a competition, and it could be ended in half a day, but now the battle is at least a few days, and even more than ten days or twenty days, and the main general does not have a good rest before the battle, and there is no gap to sleep during the war.

One division after another continued to come out of the camp, Xiong Jing, who should have been sleepy, endured tiredness and boarded the nest car to watch, at first he only saw a dark place, and when his eyes turned to the distance, he finally could distinguish which were the surging northward flow of people, and which were the white earth under the starlight. Tens of thousands of people moved to camp, and it was impossible to march in a neat queue along the avenue, but only to march directly across the vast winter fields. When they left the camp, each division had a queue, but as the soldiers walked, the queue at first disappeared and became chaotic, and tens of thousands of people formed a large, sparse dark color, like a projection of clouds under the bright moon.

Xiong Jing, who climbed to the height, saw the projection of this covering the white ground and moving forward. The left army went far away, and in the end only the baggage vehicles were left with their tails on the avenue, followed by the Chinese army. As they marched forward, the right army under the command of Yang Lu also began to leave the camp, and the ten trebuchets that had been dismantled to the main frame were also attached to the oxen, and the dingfu pulled the ropes and slowly pulled them out of the camp and into the avenue.

"Rest in peace, O King." The cold wind was cold, and Ge, who was also on the nest car, felt cold all over, and he was very worried that Xiong Jing would freeze, so he reminded Xiong Jing that it was time to sleep. Even on the march, you can sleep well in a shock-absorbing four-wheeled carriage.

"Yes." With a little reluctance, Xiong Jing, who couldn't see anything clearly at night, asked people to put down the tank car and climb into the carriage.

Usually he falls asleep with a pillow, but this night in this slightly swaying four-wheeled carriage, he has more and more things in his mind: one will be the palace of Yingdu, where he has lived for several years, and the other will be the pile of corpses buried in the whole carriage that day; For a while, Xiang Yan's arrogant and indifferent face said, 'This victory and defeat are not as good as five or five...... If the end is about to be defeated, the state of Chu may be able to bow down and survive', and after a while, Lian Po warned in an extremely serious tone: 'In all battles, morale comes first. The law which the king discussed on that day may be victorious, but it is very dangerous......

These images and words mingled in his mind, so that he could not tell whether he was asleep or awake, and when he opened his eyes again, he pushed open the carriage window, and almost suffocated him as if the actual winter sun shone on it. The blue white clouds, the sky and the earth are bright, the north wind is still howling, blowing the military flag, the feather hunting, several teams of armor soldiers are patrolling between the camps, and there are cooking smoke, camps, Tian Mo, and mountains and rivers in the distance......

On a very ordinary winter morning, the sun is shining almost every day since the beginning of Yingdu, and it is such a daytime, but Xiong Jing always feels that today's sunshine is very different and the sky is very different.

"The king is awake?" The old servant Ge in the carriage was followed by four vertical men, one of them carrying water, one holding Xiongjing's toothbrushing set, water, and tiger-shaped salt, and the other two holding breakfast and soup.

"It's time to feed?" Looking at the height of the sun, Xiong Jing began to get dressed, and asked hastily.

"It's the king, it's time to feed." After a long time with Xiong Jing, Ge no longer said 'only, yes', and slowly got used to saying 'yes'.

"Isn't it time to march again?" Xiong Jing, who was wearing pants, asked. He dresses quickly, and like a little girl, he wears only under the quilt, without revealing a trace of skin. "When will the camp be pulled?" He asked again.

"My lord, the general says we've arrived." Ge's answer was unexpected. "The Qin army camp is just a few miles away."

"Huh?!" Xiong Jing was taken aback. "Xiang Yan said that we ...... The Qin army is miles away?! He ......"

"Yes, my lord. Last night was extremely long, and the night was cold, and the soldiers walked for more than forty miles. Ge Yu said with admiration, everyone thought that they only walked twenty miles at night, but they didn't expect to walk very fast at night, and they walked outside the Qin army camp as they walked.

"That'...... What about the heavy grain? And what about catapults? "The soldier is naturally proud of his feat last night, and walked eighteen kilometers in one night, which was unexpected by the Qin army and beyond his expectations, but knowing the art of war will not be so optimistic at all, the speed of the foot soldier is very fast, but the speed of the advance of the baggage and grain is slow, especially when you have to stop to feed the horses on the road. Therefore, the military law is lucky: fifty miles and the army of the interesting ones is half away, Xiang Yan is crazy to play like this.

The general ordered Xiang Zhi to lead the rear army to escort him, and he was arriving at the camp one after another. The trebuchet is already visible. Ge said, he said this, and motioned to Xiong Jing to wash and eat first, so that he could go to the Xiangyan Shogunate.

"Stand down, stand down." Xiong Jing only washed his face and got out of the carriage, he was now going to find Xiang Yan.

At this time, Xiang Yan was on the high-hanging nest car and used Lu Lijing to take a closer look at the Qin army camp six miles away. Although the flags and feathers are displayed, the military tents are everywhere, and the smoke and dust are everywhere, some things can still be seen with the Lu Lijing. The camp is like a formation, and the camp of the Qin army is approximately circular, and the galloping roads inside are vertical and horizontal, and orderly. The large tent in the center, with a banner held high, should be the shogunate of the main general Mengwu, where the military officials and generals are constantly in and out, and the guards are heavy; On the east and west sides of the camp were the riding battalions, which, unlike the Chu army, seemed to prefer to be used intensively, and were also mixed with the cavalry, where the stables were clustered and the chariots were adjacent; The rest are all infantry battalions, they are arranged very neatly, and there is a big tent with a military flag hanging high in every hundred military curtains, which should be the curtain of the five hundred lords of the Qin army.

"That place is the camp of the Qin army." Military Sima Peng Zong pointed to the infantry camp and said. Kick different arms open, and the upper winding is pedaled by the soldier's foot. The arm crossbow has reached a length of five feet, with a longer stretch and greater bow power, and the range of light arrows exceeds that of a longbow.

"General, the king has arrived." The commander of the Chinese army beside him saw the flag fluttering under the nest car, and the red-clothed sanitation holding a spear, and the king arrived.

"Oh, here comes the King." Xiang Yan didn't care, and he said to the military official in charge of the lifting of the nest car, "Go down." ”

The lifting of the nest car is all pulled by the ox, and as soon as the order is given, the cow pulling the rope 'moo' a few times, and the nest car descends little by little. Seeing these bulls and bears, I suddenly thought of the coal mine, the coal has already been produced, because it is a shaft like the copper green mountain, so the coal is pumped out of the night by the oxen, it is time to think about how to build the steam engine, if, if this battle is still alive.

"Please, the king, atone for your sins! The last general had to coax the king yesterday as a last resort...... "Xiang Yan, together with the army Sima Pengzong and the commander of the Chinese army, asked Xiong Jing for guilt. Yesterday, his order deceived Xiong Jing, the king.

"I'm not here to ask for sin. How about Qin Jun? Out of the camp? Xiong Jingqiang stepped into the nest car first. The nest car space is small. In the end, only he, Xiang Yan, and Peng Zong got into the nest car, and the others were all waiting on the ground.

"We marched all night and the baggage has not arrived, why doesn't the Qin army come out of the camp to fight me?" It was already three strokes in the day, and the Qin army camp a few miles away actually did not move, which was a strange place for Xiong Jing.

"I don't know." The Chu army walked for about four hours last night, and when they arrived here, the left army, which was the first to arrive, marked the distance between the armies with torches, and the middle army and the right army camped accordingly. Before dawn, the armies ate the grain without digging the stove to make food, and waited for the Qin army to come out of the camp to line up for a battle, but in fact nothing happened, some were just Qin army scouts galloping around outside the camp.

"Tell the king, maybe it's because the Qin army's reinforcements haven't arrived." Peng Zong interjected. "At the end of the morning, the general ordered someone to count the Qin army's military accounts, and it is estimated that there are less than 40,000 accounts, and the Qin army is less than 200,000, so they will not fight with our army."

"Less than 40,000 accounts?" In the army, five people have a stove and five people have a tent that is customized. Sun Bin's reduction of the stove is based on this, the military tent is far away and it is difficult for normal people to count, but there is a large Lu Lijing, standing on a high place to roughly estimate the number of military tents two kilometers away, it can still be barely done, at least you can know the approximate floor area.

"The intention of the Qin army should be to wait for reinforcements, and then cut off our back road, and wait for our army to retreat before fighting with our army." Peng Zong continued to say that his judgment was also the judgment of Xiang Yan and the strategists of the shogunate. "At that time, our army's grain was exhausted, and the grain road was cut off by the Qin army.

"So what now?" Peng Zong had heard these Xiong Jing countless times, and what he wanted to know now was the way.

"The last general has been sent to the Qin camp to make an appointment...... "Peng Zong's method made Xiong Jing almost couldn't hold back his laughter. The Qin army wanted to fight in the morning, so they went out of the camp and lined up, and if they didn't want to fight, they didn't want to fight. Seeing the smile in Xiong Jing's eyes, Xiang Yan finally spoke: "King Yu: From tomorrow, our army will retreat fifteen miles every day. ”