Compared with the attack on Shaxian, it is more than ten times more difficult to attack Linzi. The investigation of the sea conditions, the deployment of boats, the training of soldiers, the determination of latitude and waterways, the support of logistics, the collection of intelligence, the capture of cities, and the grasp of the political arena of Qi ......, if there is a mistake in any place, the whole plan will be abandoned halfway, so that the two countries will continue to fight each other.

After deciding to attack Qi by sea, Xiong Jing informed Li Ji of the entire plan of the Operations Division. It is impossible for him, Hong Mou, Wu Jiheng and others to complete the entire plan, although it is feasible to judge the plan from common sense. When he heard that the Ying division would cross the sea to North Korea, and then attack Linzi from North Korea, he was stunned for a while before reacting. "The sea is dangerous, if there are great waves......

"In February, there are no big waves in the Yellow Sea, and there will be cyclones, which can also be predicted in advance." Xiong Jing's answer was more professional, and some words were incomprehensible at all. "It only takes three days to cross, and the sea conditions can be ensured in three days."

"The sea is vast, how do you know the direction?" Li asked again, he didn't know anything about navigation, and he didn't want to question Xiong Jing, but he just threw more than 30,000 people into the sea, such a bold move was really incredible, once an accident happened, the result would be the whole division. In his understanding, even if Linzi was to be attacked by sea, it should be along the coast.

"The Suzaku can go against the wind, just use the Suzaku as a guide." Xiong Jing said again. Navigation is actually the easiest problem to solve, and Xiong Jing is worried about the sea conditions. "You can let people enter the sea first, and see if the Yellow Sea can be crossed."

"Hey." With a long sigh, he felt that he couldn't keep up with Xiongjing's rhythm. "How about the king's ministers?"

"What else?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically: "According to the actual situation, formulate a detailed and feasible plan." Furthermore, collect all kinds of information about Linzi, how to attack the city, if you grasp the court of Qi, how to clear the Hou Sheng party? ”

What has to do with the sea is actually only a small part of the battle plan, just the march, and after the march there is a battle, and there is a siege. A few years ago, the State of Chu sold 50,000 sets of huge armor to the State of Qi, and the Ying division would face the Qi army wearing the same huge armor;

Linzi is the capital of the Qi State, although the attack of the Five Kingdoms has reduced the number of households in Linzi, but the defensive strength should not be underestimated. If it were to fight in the field, the Ying division would face about 100,000 halberd-wielding men. And if the city is attacked, there will be more Qi troops in the face, even if there are only 60,000 households in Linzi, and there are 3 adults in one household, there are 180,000 people.

Finally, the war is a continuation of politics, if the attack on Linzi cannot produce a deterrent effect and make the Qi state change its pro-Qin policy, then no matter how smooth the war is, the strategic goal is not achieved, and the war will be a failure. However, this point is not something that the Operations Department can grasp, and the one who can judge this issue more accurately should be the refractive who is stationed in Linzi, who knows the situation in Qi best abroad.

Keeping in mind Xiong Jing's requests, he planned to let the Operations Division begin to formulate the Linzi battle plan, but before that, he also had some to report, the most difficult of which was defense construction.

"It's 1,500 miles long?!" Looking at the national defense construction plan presented by Li He, Xiong Jing gasped. It takes 750 tons of cement to build a concrete wall for one mile, and 1,120,000 tons to build 1,500 li, which is simply appalling.

"Tell the king, there are many cities built in various places." He explained that this is not to build a 1,500-mile Great Wall, but to build more than a dozen cities. Suppose a city is fifty li, ten is already five hundred li, and twenty is a thousand li. It's not surprising to get this number.

"Where are there so many cities?" Xiong Jing put down the plan in his hand and asked a little blamed.

"This," Xiong Jing didn't look at the plan, so he had to read it himself. "When the girder was expanded, although the southern city was owned by the Wei people, the cement used by the Wei people was also purchased in our country. The Wei country has a lot of gold, so the king of Wei is willing to build a city of a hundred miles.

Yingdu is the capital of my Chu country, more than 50 miles, if you want to incorporate Huaishui Wharf and Quyang Coal Mountain into the city, you should build the city for 200 miles. ”

Li went on to talk about Yingdu, Yingdu's plan to build the city was discussed several times, and in view of the importance of coke, many courtiers suggested that Quyang Coal Mountain should be included in the city. Of course, there are other opinions, that is, to build a city on the coal mountain, and the two cities form horns with each other, so that only one hundred and thirty miles of the city can be built, and about 7,000 gold can be saved.

"Chen, Xiang, Shangcai, Pengcheng, Dongting Pengcheng, Xiayi, Jiujiang, Guangling, Zhaoguan, Jinling, Hangying, Panyu, these twelve cities or forty li, or fifty li, or a hundred li, twelve cities should have seven hundred li, so there are thousands of miles." He also listed twelve cities, all of which had great strategic value.

Huaishang is mainly Chen, Xiang, Shangcai (Shangcai still belongs to Wei, but it is okay to lease it at the right time), Pengcheng, these cities are fifty li; Dongting Pengcheng, Xiayi, Jiujiang, Guangling, Zhaoguan, Jinling, these six cities are along the Yangtze River, from Dongting Lake Pengcheng to the root of the Jianghuai defense line, except for Xiayi, Jinling, Jiujiang, the rest of the city is forty li; Hangying's plan is to build a hundred cities, because there are iron smelting and shipbuilding, and the plan is also a hundred miles.

In addition, there is a defense line of about 200 miles in northern Zhejiang composed of Lili, Dusongguan, and Gumi, as well as the first defense line of Wuling that is 250 miles long, which adds up to 1,500 li, and this does not include several city building plans in the old Yingying operation.

According to the quotation of 95 gold for 1,500 miles, the construction of the 1,500-mile city wall will cost more than 140,000 gold, which is a lot of money.

Xiong Jing had to calm down and carefully calculate the current expenses of the Chu State, mainly war boats, sea boats, fishing boats, cavalry, and accumulating corn.

There were 500 large-wing warships in the country before, but after the implementation of the recruit system, the number of troops dropped to less than 200,000, and if all the 200,000 troops used the winged warboats, then 625 would need to be built, and each of the 72 gold would need 45,000 gold, plus the logistics ships, totaling about 50,000 gold, and about 5,000 gold would be invested every year for ten years.

The construction of the sea boat invested more than 7,000 gold every year, and in fact, it could attract some merchants' investment, and eventually it was incorporated into the management of the shipping company, in addition to relying on trade profits to build ships.

Fishing boats are cheap to build, can be used pine, persimmon, cypress and other wood, mass production of one or can do ten gold, if you don't use war boats to fish, build a thousand that is ten thousand gold, if it is ten thousand, that is one hundred thousand gold, the annual expenditure is about two thousand gold.

Because of the actual number of cavalry per pawn, the 200,000 Chu cavalry was less than 20,000, and the horse raising island was less than 25,000 cavalry. Based on the price of the horse alone, it may cost 30,000 gold, and 3,000 gold will be invested every year.

Although the corn can be minted to buy, the result of the corn is to plant less mulberry hemp, which is used by the nobles, but hemp is the clothing of the common people. The people of Chu spend more than 300 yuan on clothes every year, and the three million people spend more than 100,000 gold on mulberry and hemp a year. Less mulberry hemp is planted, and at least half of the 100,000 gold cloth money will flow to the Qi country. This money needs to be balanced by the import and export deficit of pig iron, iron, paper, porcelain, land and other commodities.

In fact, the construction of sea boats and fishing boats is an investment, since it is an investment, it is natural to create more wealth, only the war boats, cavalry, and accumulation of corn are the cost of war, if you add the investment in the defense line - more than 14,000 gold a year, I don't know if the common people can afford it. Another way to do this is to reduce the profitability of building a city and at the same time adopt a masonry frame structure. Masonry walls, which are not as fast as concrete pouring, are not acceptable in wartime, which should save more than half the money.

After reading the documents handed over by Li He hastily, and after calculating the cost of the 1,500-mile defense line and the current expenditure of the Chu State, Xiong Jing asked, "What do you think of Zhu Ao?" ”

"It hasn't been presented to Zhu Ao yet." Li Ji's answer was a little surprising. "Xiang Hou thinks that it is okay to repair the north city of Daliang for fifty miles with the tax of the whole country, and it is possible to repair Chen, Xiang, Peng, and Shangcai, and it is not possible to repair the six cities of Dajiang and Wuling......

"Xiang Hou means to build each city?" Xiang Yan didn't mention the cost, he mentioned who would bear the money for repairing the defense line.

"Yes, yes." Li said. "Daliang Beicheng should be built by the counties of the whole country, Chen and Xiang should be built by the counties of Yingshui, Pengcheng should be built by the counties of Dongting County, and Xiayi should be built by ......."

"The five ridges should be built at the expense of the Yue people?" Following Xiang Yan's meaning, Xiong Jing deduced.

"Yes." He nodded heavily. "Two hundred and fifty miles is only more than 24,000 gold, and after ten years of cultivation, the Yue people must be ......"

"If our army is defeated and the Qin army drives straight in, will the Chu people retreat to the south of Wuling?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"With the meaning of Xiang Hou, the counties should defend themselves, and the city will be destroyed and the city will die, and there is no need to retreat." Li and said the thoughts of Xiang Yan and others.

"Confused!" Xiong Jing reprimanded.

Li didn't respond, he knew early on that Xiang Yan and the others had completely contradictory opinions with Yingdu somewhere. From the time Xiong Jing arranged the Wuling defense line, there was a intention to retreat south, but the counties of Huaishang did not want to move south, especially after leasing the northern city of Daliang.

Withdrawing to Jiangdong, to Yuedi, and even to the south of Wuling was seen by many as a cowardly act. Rather than this, it is better to gather forces to fight with the Qin people, after all, the Qin army cannot defeat the Chu army.

This kind of thinking seems very heroic, but Li Ji thinks it is extremely stupid. During the decisive battle of Chu and Qin, it was easy for the Qin army to levy 1.5 million troops, and the 1.5 million troops were divided into three waves into battle, the first two waves put the Chu army in a state of extreme fatigue, and when the last wave of 500,000 elites was put into the decisive battle, the 200,000 Chu army was bound to fail no matter how brave it was.

Furthermore, if the Qin army gathers heavy troops, but does not immediately fight a decisive battle with the Chu army, but delays. When the Chu army ran out of grain and had to retreat, the Qin army suddenly launched an attack, and the Chu army could not be undefeated.

Although Qin and Chu had differences in armor and tactics, this difference was not so big that the number of soldiers and the national strength of the two countries could be ignored.