The day is full of wind and snow, and the night is cold and windy. During the day, the enemy attacked the city, and at night, the enemy also attacked the city. The long night passed, and the fighting at the head of the city did not stop for half a minute. At this time, there were only more than 300,000 troops left, and these 300,000 were divided into five formations, for more than five hours at a time, and they took turns attacking the city day and night. The Chu army in the city minus the wounded and sick only 40,000 remained, divided into three formations in addition to the sanitation palace armor, the Qin army rotated, and the Chu army also rotated, but in this way, the Chu army was no longer able to attack, and could only passively defend the city. Although the sanitation and cavalry had time, Lian Po was not allowed to go out of the city.

As the war raged day by day, the consumption of grain and straw increased day by day. The four foods (1.5 stones/month) are eaten in ordinary leisure, once the farming work is done, it must be ginseng food (2 stones/month), and if it is a battle, it is fighting food (3 stones/month). For more than three months, each soldier had consumed five stone millet, and at most only one and a half stone remained. The soldiers who died of illness left behind more than 30,000 stones, and each of them barely had two and a half stones. With such the intensity of war, even if the horse is killed, the grain can last for a month at most.

It's time to restock.

Chen Yingzheng was sleeping in the Ming Hall, and what was placed in front of Xiong Jing was the sand table for the supply operation, which was proposed by the boat master Hongqi and others, and the combat plan discussed by the sanitation generals and strategists. In addition to the purpose of supplying grain and straw, another purpose is to transport the wounded.

The plan has been discussed many times, and there is nothing wrong with Xiongjing's eyes, and the real question is whether the soldiers in the lake and the soldiers of the chasm can be coordinated. If the two sides cooperate well, the plan will inevitably succeed, and if the cooperation is not good, the battle is likely to fail.

"Why isn't Xunzhou missing?" The station was originally built on land, but later moved to the boat. The boat is in the chasm, and the Qin army is helpless.

"Your lord, there is little water in the winter chasm, and the Qin people shoot the boat with rockets, and the Xunzhou has to retreat." The Red Boat Master was trapped in the city, but he patrolled the East Lake every day, and often encountered rockets from the Qin army during his patrols. He said again: "Please don't worry, the king has our army on the other side of the chasm, and the message is correct." ”

"So afraid of fire?" Xiong Jing muttered, he didn't expect that it would take several hours for the news boat to send and receive flying messages. These hours were enough for the rockets of the Qin army on the shore to ignite the boat.

"What do you mean by a king?" Hongji didn't hear what Xiong Jing said.

"Nothing. Let's send it out. "The battle plan has been condensed into dozens of words, and it will be repeatedly issued on the southeast corner tower.

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"Report ——! Chen Ying's urgent news, Chen Ying's urgent news! "Less than four hours after Chen Ying's news was sent, the news reached the Yingdu Dasima Mansion. The translated text first made Yin Nao sly read it in a hurry, and after reading it, he handed it to Zuo Tu Zhao Huang, who read it and gave it to the new Yiyang Marquis Yi of the Great Sima Mansion Yin, and finally Song Yuzi Mo and others.

"The Qin army attacked the city day and night, day and night. The grain in the city is only enough for one month. Zi Mo sighed after looking at it, he could imagine the appearance of Chen Ying's corpse mountain and sea of blood, and after gasping hard, his voice was a little sad: "The king is in danger!" Since it can break the Qin army's supply of grain and transport the wounded, why not take the king back to Yingdu? ”

"Take back the king?" Everyone shook their heads, and Song Yu said helplessly: "The prince and the general, rather there is a kind!" At this time, it is not brave to leave Chen, how can the king leave Chen? ”

Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind? The impact of this sentence on the world is in no way inferior to the Dazexiang uprising twenty-seven years later. Xiong Jing's answer to this is: nothing. The brave and the faithful are valuable!

This was supposed to be a sentence that negated the aristocratic rank, but Xiong Jing's answer gave Song Yu a theoretical cornerstone to stabilize the existing noble and lowly rank in the Chu State. That is: the reason why the Yu (Xiong) clan is the king is because the ancestors are brave and faithful. After the founding of the country, most of the thirty-third and forty-three monarchs were brave, and even if there were faint kings, they were also the remnants of the first king.

The monarch of Chu has always been an ancestor who did not send troops for three years and did not obey the courtesy. The expansion of the state of Chu from fifty miles to thousands of miles today is all due to the courage of the monarch. From this point of view, it is only natural that the Yu clan is king. The royal family stabilized, and the princess clan also stabilized. Eight hundred years of the Chu State, looking through the family history, who in the big family has no one who dares to die in a happy battle?

It's just that such an explanation will inevitably make the domestic atmosphere of Chu completely heavy on military and light on literature, but for the princes, this is actually a good thing. There is a way to be poor and rich, how can you eat meat if you have no money? How can you ride and shoot without money? How can I buy a giant armor sword if I don't have money? The poor family is hungry, and the bean soup and taro rice at the turn of spring and autumn, where does it have the strength to practice martial arts?

Private pawns have been legal last year, as long as they are nobles (including honored scholars), as long as they report to the Great Sima Mansion, and have qualified officers and establishments, they can become an army. It's just that everyone is waiting and watching, and only now has large-scale recruitment begun.

The impact of 'princely generals, rather there is a kind of' on the domestic side of Chu is a digression, but since the king has determined the supreme ideology of the Chu state, the brave believer is noble, the king himself must abide by this criterion. It is impossible to withdraw Chen Ying at this time, and withdrawing Chen Ying at this time will only tarnish the honor of the king.

After Song Yu finished speaking, no one answered, and Zuo Tu Zhaohuang coughed and said, "When will the Great Wing Warship be built?" ”

"It will take at least three months." Nao is cunning and knows the progress of building the mansion best. Time is the biggest problem when it comes to mobilizing private shipbuilders outside the country, and they have to learn new shipbuilding techniques.

"The city will be broken in March." Yi Su took over Lu Yangjun as the governor of the Great Sima Mansion, and he also knew the progress of building the mansion, and he also knew that Chen Ying could not support it for three months. "And the monthly output of Jujia is only 5,000 sets, less than 10,000 sets in the army, more than 50,000 people, and only half of the soldiers are wearing armor."

"5,000 sets this month, 8,000 sets next month, 10,000 sets next month, more than 10,000 sets in the third month, and more than 40,000 sets." Nao Wei disagreed with Yi Su's point of view, and most of the common people in Pingyu, Chengyang, and Chen counties who ate in Yingdu had completed their training and could already do some simple armor assembly work. Because of the rolling mill, the bottleneck of the production of ring sheet armor is all in assembly. "More than 50,000 soldiers, more than 40,000 armor, can Yu Qin people fight."

"30,000 pawns are enough!" As the governor of the Great Sima Mansion, Yi Su naturally knew the plan to surprise attack Ao Cang. "You can select 30,000 elite soldiers from the army of the king and the king, and once you gather 20,000 sets of armor next month, you can attack."

"No way!" Nao shook his head vigorously. "Burning is only one of them, the high treasury has been short of food for a long time, and our army must seize it with all its might. Moreover, in the next month's attack, there will be only one hundred and twenty ships in the big wing, and there are still sixty ships missing; The soldiers have not been practiced, how can they paddle? ”

After two years of war, Yingdu Gaoku and Xianyi Gaoku have either bottomed out or are about to bottom, and now the grain and straw are all dependent on Qi and Yan, and Zhao is not pulling out a dime because of the dispute over ironclad, and lies that there is no grain in the country. However, this came at a price, Qi Guo got twenty simplified trebuchets, and Yan Guo got two thousand giant iron treasure knives.

Aocang has more than 40 million stone of grain in stock, and if some of it can be rushed back after the capture, it will definitely alleviate the domestic corn crisis.

It is not impossible, the water of the chasm is diverted from the Yellow River to the Great Liang, and the Yellow River and a large number of the beams have nurseries and fields. In ancient times, Osawa was gradually turned into farmland. In the Tang Dynasty, there were still 50 miles from east to west, 26 miles from north to south, and it was not until the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty that the field finally became a fertile field.

Because of the existence of the chasm, today's garden is 110 miles wide from east to west and more than 80 miles long from north to south. As long as the corn in Aocang is transferred to the highlands in the fields, then it can be transported back to Chu little by little in the future. Putianze is more than 80 miles away from Aocang, and 100 boats can transport 150,000 stones of corn at one time, and twice during the day and night, that is, 300,000 stones. If all the large and small boats of the Chu State were transferred to Aocang to transport grain, 1.8 million stones could be transported in one day, and 18 million stones in ten days.

Aocang was the important place of the Qin army, and if it was to be garrisoned for ten days after the surprise attack, it would inevitably require 50,000 elite armorers dressed in huge armor. This means that the surprise attack must wait until April, and at the earliest, at the end of March. It's just that Chen Ying can really hold out for another three months?

Ruoying Palace is still incense, and every time she comes here to see the queen mother, she feels a little hairy in her heart. Rejecting the Queen Mother's order to deliver the art of iron and the weapon of throwing stones to the State of Qin made Nao Wei feel a little guilty. And recently, the queen mother has summoned herself alone, and when she meets, she leaves her left and right, and the lonely man and woman are even more uncomfortable in the room. Just now, when he ascended the stairs and ascended to the hall, the two temple people looked at him a few times, and finally walked quickly.

"How is Chen Ying?" Concubine Zhao had a smile on her face and personally poured tea for Nao Cunning. Her clothes have been specially changed, a curved red dress, a wide ribbon around her waist, and the collar is wide open, revealing a piece of crystal white breasts, Nao Cunning only glanced at it and hurriedly looked away.

"Queen Mother, the king is fine." It's the same old saying.

"Yes. I know that the king is safe. Concubine Zhao wore a common weeping bun for a noble woman, she exhaled like an orchid, and her body was almost cunning when she poured tea. After pouring the tea, he didn't return to the table, but moved to the side of the Nao sly table, and asked softly in his ear: "Does Ling Yin think I'm beautiful?" ”

"Ahh As if he had been stabbed by someone, he got up in a hurry, took a few steps and hurriedly bowed. shouted in his mouth: "The minister is rude! Rude! After shouting twice, he said: "The minister retires, retires, retires......", and then ran out of Ruoying Palace like a headless fly, and fell when he went down the steps.

Concubine Zhao was born in the court of the king of Zhao, and even if she has not seen the men and women of the court of Zhao, she has heard a lot. The queen mother can have exclusive power in the Zhao state, but there is no precedent for the queen mother and queen to be autocratic in the Chu state, so Yin dare not to be ordered to her. There is no way to seduce Nao Cunning, who wants to seduce has just begun, and Nao Cunning has fled.

"Why does the lord ......" Nao Cunning, who ran to the outside of Ruoying's palace, was still gasping, he was embarrassed, and he wanted to immediately draw his sword and kill himself. The servant saw him asking each other like this, and before he finished speaking, two temple people flashed in front of him, 'swishing ......', and two feather arrows suddenly flew out of the temple people's arms.

“…… Assassin! Catch the assassins! After Nao fell to the ground, the soul of the servant was lost in an instant, and he only knew how to tear and shout.