More than 700 miles from Handan to Daliang are all going against the water, that is, Fei, Ganhou, Neihuang, Xiyang, and Lianyi, all the cities along the way are broken, and they have to go all the way to Lujin, and the river enters the range of Dong County and Hanoi County, and the people of the city can be seen on both sides of the river.

This is Qin County, seeing the Chu army from a distance, the Yi Shou ordered the drummers to beat the drums, and the people quickly closed the door. Only in the villages and fields on both sides of the river outside the city can you see standing on the shore without fear of the common people.

Puyang is the capital of Wei, just on the south bank of the Yellow River. After moving Weijun to the wild queen, this place has been returned to the eastern county of Qin. Zhongmu is the place of the alliance a few months ago, and it is the border of Qin and Zhao. If the Qin State invades Zhao, it should be stationed in these two places.

"Tell the king, there is no Qin army in Puyang, but there is grain, once the army goes north, Yishui ......" Sikong Ma said.

"Where is the Qin army?" Zhao Yan interrupted. After listening to it for a long time, he still seemed to believe Jianxinjun's words, and the most important thing was that King Qin promised not to save Yan, which was a tacit consent to Zhao Guo's war against Yan. And the Qin army is all in Chu, and it will take at least a month to transfer hundreds of thousands of troops from Chu to Hebei. In this month, Zhao Jun had gone south from Yishui.

"The king, the king of Qin has no faith!" Sikong Ma heard what Zhao Yan meant, and was a little distressed. "If you cut Yan, Qin will cut Zhao."

"Yan Country is definitely not Qin State, cut down Yan, if Qin doesn't save it, the widow will destroy this dynasty." Zhao Yan said, waving his sleeves with a bit of a kingly demeanor.

"Think about it, if the Zhao State destroys Yan, what will be the benefit of Qin? In the battle of Changping, the Qin army narrowly won, so far the Qin state dominated the world and the countries were in awe. Back then, the Qin State narrowly defeated the Zhao State with the strength of the whole country, how could it sit back and watch the Zhao State calmly destroy Yan and become a fierce rival again? "Sikong Ma can only reason with Zhao Yan and try to persuade him for the last time." The Qin people are very profitable, once the Zhao army pulls out the Yandu, the army can go straight to the Zhao realm along the river, the Zhao army is in the easy water, and the return to the city is by land, the land route is thirty miles a day, when can it return to Handan? ”

The difference between water and land made Zhao Yan stunned. Going down the river, if you also sail at night, more than 200 miles a day, and 16,700 miles from Xianyang to Puyang, of course, it is impossible for the Qin army to set off from Xianyang. From Xianyang to Puyang is the Qin realm, the army is assembled along the river, with the efficiency of the Qin army, ten days can go to the territory of Zhao to fight. In ten days, it seems that there are only 800 miles from Yishui to Handan, and it takes more than 20 days to walk 30 miles a day, and Zhao Jun can't catch up at all.

Sikong Ma's last words dispelled Zhao Yan's thoughts, Guo Kai was still there after he and Jianxinjun went to bed, Zhao Yan said: "Guo Qing thinks ...... Is it a widow to cut down a swallow? ”

"Whether the king cuts Yan or not, it depends on the battle of Chencheng." Guo Kai listened to it for a long time and knew the current trend.

"Oh?" Zhao Yan was puzzled, "The Qin army has besieged Chencheng, and the king of Chu is trapped in it. The Qin army of 200,000 and the Wei army of 200,000 attacked day and night, and the news of the destruction of Chen Cheng and the death of the king of Chu may be heard next month. If the widow doesn't cut down the swallow, it's too late! ”

"Definitely. Chen Cheng was once the capital of Chu and was a strong city. The Chu army has the advantage of iron, and it has the weapon of throwing stones, and it is even more ...... "Guo Kai originally wanted to say that it was Lian Po who defended the city, but Lian Po was an anti-Qin faction, and it was politically incorrect to mention him." “…… There is also the king of Chu in charge, and the army of Qin and Wei will not be able to break the city next month. ”

"Guo Qing's meaning, the widow should take the opportunity to cut down Yan?" When Zhao Yan heard that the battle in Chen Cheng was about to stalemate, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Definitely. That's not what the minister meant. Guo Kai hurriedly denied it, "Whether to cut Yan or not, the matter is big, and the minister is not familiar with military affairs......"

Zhao Yan originally wanted to listen to Guo Kai's opinion, but Guo Kai didn't dare to intervene in such a matter at all. This is a political gamble, if the Qin army really took advantage of the emptiness of Handan to attack Zhao, the people who supported Yan had no possibility of turning over politically, although he had meritorious service, he would just avoid death.

"How can this be?" Zhao Yan stood up impatiently. This kind of thing should be kept secret, he can't ask everyone for advice, and the opinions of the close courtiers are too different for him to choose.

'Woo woo woo ......' snow outside the Ming Hall, when the temple people came in, the curtain opened, and the cold wind carried the snowflakes into the Ming Hall. The hall was suddenly cold, Zhao Yan then sat down to roast the fire again, and after yawning a few times, he planned not to think about this annoying question anymore, on such a cold day, it was better to retreat to Xiaoqing, change into deep clothes and talk to the two Ai Ji on the collapse is the most comfortable.

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"I've seen the king! I've seen the king! I have seen the king...... "Chen Yingchengtou, the frost is all over the ground, and the female wall is even more frozen with pieces of blood, which is what the Wei army left last night." At this time, Xiong Jing also patrolled the city like Lian Po, and whenever the county guards saw him coming, even if they were shivering from the cold, they would bow to him with their heads held high.

"But sick?" A county pawn had a runny nose and an abnormally red face, and Xiong Jing saw it.

This is an era when there is no cotton, and there is only floc in addition to fur to protect against the cold. What is Flocculation? The flocculent is the residue of the bad cocoon, the filament of the good cocoon, and the broken filament, which is sold on stone, and the common people can afford it.

"Great and ...... king" was already nervous when he saw the county pawn of Dashi, and when he asked the king again, the county pawn was even more nervous.

"I've seen the king." The pawn ran over, and he didn't know why the king had stopped.

"Let the witch take his temperature, if the temperature is high...... "If the temperature is high, Xiong Jing doesn't know what to do?" In the era of lack of medical treatment, most of the diseases are cured by the patients themselves.

CHAPTER XXXVI

"But the ginger is gone?" After the siege, Chen Ying was short of materials, and the first one to be short was Jiang. It is cold in the middle of the night in the city, and if the county magistrate who can't drink alcohol has a bowl of hot, oily ginger soup, it is the best enjoyment in the world. However, ginger was not listed as an important military material, and there were not many of them, so they could only be collected by families in the city.

"Your Majesty, Doctor Yin said that ginger should be left to the patient." Chang Jiang replied in a low voice. Drinking a bowl of ginger soup with a cold, putting an ice towel on the forehead, and finally covering the quilt and charcoal fire to suffocate sweat, such a soil rule has cured many people. When the news came out, the soldiers respected Xiong Jing like a god.

"It's a pity there are no more gingers!" Xiong Jing was a little regretful, before everyone thought of corn, artillery shells, arrows, armor, no one thought of cold clothes and typhoid medicine, but the queen mother specially packed a boat of things for him, half of which were cold clothes, more meat and palace snacks, and finally some of them were all kinds of strange medicines.

It was the mother's idea to marry Qi Qian into the Qin Kingdom, and only the queen mother dared to do such a thing, Xiong Jing wanted to blame her, but she couldn't blame her at all. Most people thought that the Qin State could sue for peace, or marry a daughter, or cut the land, or become a vassal, but he knew in his heart that against the Qin State, it was useless to seek peace, and he could only kill peace. Eleven years ago, Xinling Junhe defeated Qin, and Qin did not dare to come out of the Hangu Pass, only to rebel and plan to divide the King of Wei and Xinlingjun, and finally wait for Xinling Jun to die of illness before he dared to go out of the customs to fight.

Is the Qin State heroic? Not at all!

Of course, for the villain, this is a great manifestation of the cunning of the soldiers, but for the nobles, it is an intolerable and despicable act.

Faith is useless against villains, they only understand killing.

Xiong Jingdu stepped forward, thinking about the difference between the villain and the nobleman. Once upon a time, he was also a villain, but now he is the king of Chu. This personality change gave him one of the most precious and incomparable realizations, that is, the reason why people lie, why they use tricks, why they are black, and why they are shameless, is because they are not brave enough.

It's just that if a person wants to live a happy life, it is not enough to be brave, and it is even more of a joke to rely on hard work. Society is a road network, and you have to rely on your family connections, the relationships you build after birth, run to the nearest station to you, and then look for the direction and ride bravely, instead of running silently in a place where there is no road......

"I've seen the king." Xiong Jing slowly walked to the Beicheng Tower, and the guard general Chen Bu came up with a cadre of troops to salute.

"How was last night?" Chen Bu's face was full of sleepiness, and Xiong Jing's gaze fell on the bandage on his arm after asking.

"Last night, the Qin army attacked the city, and they were all driven down by the ministers." Chen Bu said, and after he finished speaking, he patted the ring piece on his body and laughed. "With this treasure armor, a hundred soldiers are not going to do it. When Qin saw this armor, he scattered in all directions. ”

1,000 sets were also allocated on the Ju Iron Ring Piece A City, 500 sets each in the North City and West City, basically achieving the standard of five steps and one class. The Qin army is holding a bronze soldier, not to mention hurting people, even if it is impossible to leave a mark on the bright armor, this is much more useful than the hundred soldiers Mo Xiang Fu, so the soldier tube ring piece is called the hundred soldiers Mo Xiang Jia.

"It was not the armor that repelled the Qin army, but the bravery of the generals." Xiong Jing corrected Chen Bu's words, and this sentence made the military leaders behind Chen Bu stand solemn. He looked at Chen Yingyu Sergeant Lan Zhong again: "Can there be a brave person who recommends him as an honorary man?" ”

The first batch of honorable soldiers only need to be listed in the first three rows of the military formation, and then the conditions become stricter in vain, and the honorable soldiers who become honorable soldiers not only have to fight in the front row, but also fight together to nominate two honorable soldiers, and the three honorable soldiers can only be recommended if they are recognized. If it is a common person, it is necessary to investigate whether the previous words and deeds are faithful, and in the end, those who meet these conditions are still not quasi-honorary soldiers, and they still need to enter the military academy for three years to study, and they are honored scholars after graduation.

Yushi was completely cultivated according to aristocratic standards, not the stupid and ignorant samurai of later generations of Japanese who could not eat. They do kill people and don't die, but they will be punished by the county and even the Yingdu Honorary Priest for indiscriminate killing. Even if they don't kill people indiscriminately, any words and deeds that violate the rules of honor will still make them pay the price.

They are much like the Western Zhou feudal nobles who were bound by the rules of etiquette hundreds of years ago, or the medieval church knights a thousand years later—the three years of military academy will allow each of them to learn horsemanship, and the first heavy cavalry unit of the Chu State will be selected from among them; The study of the military academy will also make them become a devout disciple of Taiyi, believing that after dying in battle, their souls will float to the Langji Wonderland and live forever.

"Tell the king, the recommendations are not all ......" After every battle, Xiong Jing would ask if there were any honorable people to recommend, but it was still early in the morning, and some of the recommendations had not yet been reported.

"Don't let anyone be left out, otherwise it will chill the fighting spirit of the whole army." Xiong Jing instructed, "Do not neglect any one to damage the honor of all the honorees." ”