"Li Xinyu said in the army that this battle should go straight to Yingdu and then restore Nanjun." In the middle of Yingdu's sleep, Nao and the others were reporting to Xiong Jing. In order to find out the movements of the Qin army, the Chu army reprimanded the cavalry and captured prisoners one after another, with dozens of casualties. Fortunately, the casualties are only on the front line, and Yingdu is still prosperous.

"Yes." Xiong Jing is looking at a winter coat. When rescuing Qi last year, the soldiers of Chu still had a lot of frostbite, and there were problems with the design of the coat - the cotton clothes would absorb a lot of sweat and water, and then quickly freeze into ice, causing frostbite; Although the leather boots do not absorb water, they do not absorb the sweat on the feet during the march, and the sweat freezes and causes severe frostbite.

The best way to do this is to wear the coat backwards, and at the same time add a suede lining to the inside of the boots. But this is contrary to the norm, the wearing habit of fur in this era is hair on the outside and leather on the inside. The new winter coat is the opposite, with the hair on the inside and the skin on the outside, and it will definitely be laughed at when worn out like this.

Nao was cunning to report the military situation on the front line, and Xiong Jing was absent-minded. In fact, he was not really absent-minded, but the intelligence in all aspects was the same, and Li Xin asked the Qin army to 'go straight to Jingdu and then restore Nanjun'. Li Xin's army is only 400,000, how can he go straight to Yingdu and restore the old Yingdu with this little force? This is obviously inaccurate, but at the moment there is only this piece of information, and the Hou spy prisoners are completely consistent.

"The minister thought that this was a move by the Qin people to contain it." Nao is not confused, "He deliberately showed weakness to induce me to fight with him." If he really decides with it, Li Xin will retreat. At this time, Shuize was not sealed, and if the Qin people intended to retreat, our army would not be able to do so. ”

"That's what it is." Xiong Jing determined the shape of the military coat before he spoke to Nao Cunning: "When does the Operations Division think it will be frozen this year?" ”

"Your Majesty, astronomy thinks that this year's Huaishui will not be sealed." Li and Nao came to see Xiong Jing together, in addition to him, there was naturally no need to kill me.

"Not sealed?" Xiong Jing is strange. He thought that although this winter day was warm, the Huaishui would still freeze, but he didn't think that it would not freeze throughout the winter. The advantage of not freezing is naturally that it is convenient to rescue Qi Guo, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to pursue Li Xin.

In the past, there was Yingshui in the south of Xiangcheng City. Winter marches can ignore the width of roads and bridges, and non-winter marches, only two divisions in parallel, the width of roads and bridges requires three tracks. One track is painted, two tracks are roads, three tracks are roads, and three tracks are the largest roads. The plains may be able to ignore the roads, but the rivers cannot.

"Yes, yes. Astronomy thought that this winter Huaishui will not be sealed. He affirmed. It's already November, and at this time last year, the market was full of cotton jackets, and it didn't take long for it to snow again, and this year many people in the market are still wearing long-sleeved single clothes, which is really different.

"Huaishui is not sealed, which is conducive to our army's rescue of Qi and is not conducive to our army's decisive battle with Li Xin." Nao Cunning took over the conversation. "If our army divides forces to rescue Qi, Li Xin enters Fangcheng and kills and plunders like last year, and the common people will have resentment. And if we fight with them, we will not fight with me, and I will be many times more than me, so I can only hold on to the city and let it do what it does. ”

The Qin army could not grasp the decisive battle of the main force of the Chu army, and it was difficult for the Chu army to seize the opportunity of the Qin army to divide the troops. If you don't save Qi Qi and die, you will be ravaged by the Qin army again if you save Qi Fangcheng. Fangcheng is the habitual sphere of influence of the Chu State, and the people have already complained a lot last year, if Qin Shou is left young again this year, the road drum outside the road gate will be broken again.

"How is Wang Qian, is it a camp?" Faced with this dilemma, Xiong Jing asked Wang Qian.

"Your lord, Wang Jian has not yet pulled out the camp, but within a few days, the army will definitely pull out the camp and attack Huyi Pingyin." Don't talk to me.

"Niu Ma is still in Hebei, how can Wang Jian attack Huyi Pingyin?" Xiong Jing was puzzled. The Qin army collected 200,000 to 300,000 cattle and horses in order to destroy Qi, but because the Yue people's war boats were cruising on the big river, these cattle and horses had been in Hebei, and grain and straw were also piled up in Hebei.

"I don't know." Don't worry, I can't answer that question.

"When will the river freeze?" Xiong Jing asked again. The ice of the big river is related to when Henan and Hebei will be connected, and it is as important as the ice of Huaishui.

"It will be sealed next month." Li said. "Wang Qian's army went first, for the purpose of attacking Pingyin. The grain and straw in Dongjun can be eaten until the river is frozen, so there is no shortage of grain and straw in Wang Jian within a month. When the grain and straw from Hebei arrived next month, Pingyin had been annihilated. ”

"Even so, why are the Qin people so anxious?" Li Ji's words could not dispel Xiong Jing's doubts, but made him even more confused.

"Xu is Wang Qian, who wants to quickly break through the city and slaughter all the people." Don't let me interject.

"The 300,000 Qi army, not to mention the 300,000 soldiers, is 300,000 pigs, and it is not something that can be slaughtered if you want to." Xiong Jing, who didn't understand what trick the Qin people were playing, replied to him angrily. Speaking of Qi people, he also asked Qi people, "What do Qi people mean now?" Or is it not the right to be outnumbered? ”

The military power Qi people will not give it, Nao cunning, Li and did not speak, just shook his head. The State of Qi without a later victory shows the true colors of a businessman, and the State of Qi will not give the right to the army so that the State of Chu can destroy Qin, and of course the State of Qi will not sit idly by and watch the State of Qin destroy Chu.

"Last month, the Qi army was stationed in the rear, how is it now?" Xiong Jing also knew that he couldn't get the military power, so he asked about the next thing.

"Qi people don't want to." Nao said slyly. "Anping Jun said that without an army of 300,000, Qin cannot be defeated, and Pingyin cannot reduce troops."

"Defeat Qin?" Xiong Jing laughed, "Qi people still want to defeat Qin? Didn't he know that once Pingyin was pulled out, the 300,000 army would be wiped out, and the Qi country would die if it didn't die? ”

"An Pingjun said that he knew it, but the people of Qi would rather go to the East China Sea and die, and they could not bear to be the people of Qin. Now that the Qin people are fighting Qi, why don't they refuse the Qin people outside the country, and would rather indulge the Qin people within the territory? Nao Cunning relayed the message sent by Qi Ren and said.

He also said: I heard that I rescued the chaos and punished the violence, and I called the righteous soldiers, and the king of the righteous soldiers; If the enemy inflicts on oneself and rises as a last resort, it is said that the soldier should be the soldier, and the one who should be the soldier wins; Those who fight for small reasons and can't bear to be angry are called angry soldiers, and those who are angry are defeated; Those who benefit people's land and treasures are called greedy soldiers, and those who are greedy are broken; Relying on the greatness of the country, the people of the people, and those who want to see the enemy, are called proud soldiers, and those who are proud of the soldiers are destroyed: these five are not only personnel, but also the way of heaven.

The Qin people fought Qi, and Qi had no choice but to rise, this was a response. The country of Qin, tigers and wolves, good profit and no trust, cutting Qi is the land and goods of the Li people, and holding the country's big, the people of the people, want to see the power of Qi, this is a greedy and arrogant soldier. Now the soldiers of Qi should sit in the fortified city to attack the greedy and arrogant soldiers of Qin, the Qi army will win, and the Qin army will be destroyed......"

Qi people are good at discussing and liking words, and the messages sent are very long, and they can only choose the most important ones to relay. Xiong Jing was also touched by the sentence at first, 'Why don't you refuse the Qin people abroad, and would rather indulge the Qin people in the territory'. Last year, the Chu army rescued Qi as 'Ning Zongqin people in the territory'. Of course, the main reason for saving Qi last year was to fight a decisive battle with Wang Qian.

The front was a little touched, and the back made him want to laugh when he listened to it. There are no volunteers, soldiers, angry soldiers, and greedy soldiers on the battlefield, only brave soldiers and cowardly soldiers, only qualified soldiers and unqualified soldiers on the battlefield. Meng Wu is heavy, Li Xin is brave, Wang Jian is slippery, and the Qin army is a hundred battles, and the Qi army will definitely be defeated by Wang Jian if it fights in the field. Fortunately, the Qi army is now only defending the city, and fortunately, the Qi army has 150,000 Jimo soldiers.

"Since the Huaishui is not sealed this winter, the Qi people will defeat the enemy abroad...... Xiong Jing pondered, he was very worried that the 300,000 Qi army would be annihilated by Wang Qian, but the military power was not in his hands, and he was helpless what the Qi people would do.

"It's better to fight Li Xin in Fangcheng first." This is also the decision of the Operations Division. "If the Qi people are defeated, there is still Linzi to resist, if Linzi is also defeated, Huaishui is not sealed, our army can quickly go to Weishui to save Qi."

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing didn't nod, he had learned not to express his position easily.

"Outside Dongye Ao, the rest of them thought that they should attack Li Xin first." Nao said slyly. "If the Qi people are defeated, it is not too late to save Linzi."

The first principle of the battle was to concentrate forces, especially against the short Chu army. The battle of Weinan was a fluke victory for the Chu army, if it were not for the Qin army to put the cavalry in front of the battle, and at the same time Zhao Zheng's sudden retreat in the battle of Changqi, it might not have caused that level of collapse.

Last time it was a fluke, but this time in a dignified battle with Li Xin's 400,000-strong army, it is necessary to concentrate the maximum number of troops. Xiong Jing, who was secretly worried in his heart, asked: "If you fight with Li Xin, what is the strength of our army?" ”

"The strength of our army, the fourth division of the Ying Division, the third division of the Xiang Division, the first division of the Chen Division, the first division of Xincai, the first division of Xia Cai, the first division of Qisi, the two divisions of Xiyang Yiyang, Zhongli, Quyang, Huaiyin, Huainan Zhushu, etc., the fourth division of Ludi, the third division of Songdi, the second division of Wudi, the third division of Chengyang of Xitang, the fourth division of Jingzhao Song, and the first division of Dongting, a total of 200,000 people......"

He read out the thirty-two divisions in one breath. At this time, the Chu army was no longer thirty-two divisions, and after the Battle of Fuying, Qu Jingzhao and Song and other clans strongly requested to expand, so five new divisions were added - when each division of the Battle of Fuying was on the front line, Fengjun and Jingzhao and other clans took advantage of the chaos to 'steal' many elite Dingkou in the old Ying, and moved to their own fiefdoms, and with these Dingkou, their divisions and brigades were expanded.

This incident was later exposed by the old husband and the honorable man, and Feng Jun and Jing Zhao had to spit back some ding. There are some kinds of learning, and all clans and honorable people follow the bad ones. As a result, the previous 32 divisions were not yet established, and now there are 37 and a half divisions, except for the landless poor towns, Huainan Zhushu and Ludi, which do not want to expand, most of the rest of the divisions are full of foot soldiers. Xiong Jing and the Great Sima Mansion did not stop this situation, but only emphasized that any soldier should have a farmhouse.

The 32 divisions had more than 188,000 men not counting the cavalry, and more than 214,000 including the cavalry. The training of cavalry could not be achieved in a short time, except for a few divisions, and most of the divisions were dissatisfied with the formation of cavalry. Of the 32 divisions combined, there were only more than 15,000 cavalrymen, and the average number of cavalry in each division was about 400, which was only half of the establishment regulations.

Gathering such a huge number of troops, Xiong Jing heard that the Qu division (Dongting Division) and Ruo Ao's division (Xitang Chengyang Third Division), who had originally been in the Bashu Han Dynasty, were transferred out, and couldn't help asking: "How do the Bashu Han merchants garrison?" ”

"It is garrisoned by the three divisions of the Hubei Division, the Zhuyue Division, the Cangwu Brigade, and the Ba people, nearly 100,000 people." He replied.

"Not enough!" Xiong Jing shook his head resolutely.