Cheng Kui suddenly ran out with a bow on his horse, Li Xin was so frightened that he fled, ran for a while and overturned, Xiong Jing couldn't help laughing when he saw this. The two histories of the left and right behind him hurriedly recorded, linking Li Xin's car overthrow with the king's angry reprimand of Li Xin's indiscriminate killing, which is the embodiment of the power of benevolence and righteousness-

The world of survival of the fittest is extremely cruel, so cruel that people have to be on the battlefield all the time. Fighting in the same room, father and son cannibalism, in the history known to the Second History, this was the case in the Spring and Autumn Period hundreds of years ago. Thirty-six kings were killed, fifty-two countries were destroyed, and the princes were running away, and those who could not protect their societies were innumerable. Such a world is at least unbeautiful in the eyes of the literati, and only a world of benevolence and righteousness can be permanently peaceful.

Xiong Jing didn't know what the historian behind him was thinking, and he didn't want Li Xin to die for the time being. If Li Xin dies now, the front army of the Chu army will only leave Fangcheng, which can only defeat the Qin army, but not annihilate the Qin army. It was what he wanted to defeat Qin talent again, and like the Battle of Weinan, he wanted Qin soldiers to have fear of the Chu army, and even more so to imprint this fear into the depths of their souls, making them tremble when they thought about it.

"Li Xin retreated and returned to Xiangcheng." Returning to the shogunate temporarily located in Juan Castle, the military Sima Pengzong faced the map and said, and the other strategists also nodded their heads again and again. The news that Li Shin retreated reached the shogunate one step ahead of Xiong Jing. The strategists did not look at the map and knew from memory alone that the Qin people would retreat to the Xiangcheng camp.

"Xiangcheng?" Looking at Xiangcheng in the north of Yeyi, Xiong Jing guessed that Li Xin would retreat to Xiangcheng, and what he was not familiar with was the geography around Xiangcheng. "Where is the map of Xiangcheng?" On the table was still a map of one in 500,000 outside the square city.

"The map of Xiangcheng is here." A map of Xiangcheng in 1/50,000 was immediately stamped on the original map. This is the most accurate map of Xiangcheng by the Chu army - the appearance of the Lu Lijing allowed the Great Sima Mansion to use the traditional triangulation method to draw maps, and the terrain also used contour lines, so that the map drawn was very accurate. However, due to the development of basic science and mathematics, there is no least squares method, and there are still many errors in mapping.

Xiangcheng was originally called Bian, which belonged to Zhengdi. In the sixteenth year of King Xiang of Zhou (636 BC), King Xiang's younger brother Prince led the Zhai people to capture the city of King Zhou in order to compete for the throne, and King Xiang avoided the land. Because King Xiang had taken refuge here, Bianyi was later called Xiangcheng.

However, Xiangcheng is not only Xiangyi, the first king Lingwang also built a city here, because this place is Xiangdi, and it is also destined to be Xiangcheng. The city is in the south, and the Lingwang City is in the north, and the two cities are only two miles apart. Outside the two cities, there is another city more than 20 miles to the east, that is, the west of the Chu State. Chen, Cai, and Butang, 'Fu are all a thousand times'. Fu refers to the military endowment, which is paid according to the actual number of households. There are 100,000 armoured men, which is equivalent to a medium-sized state.

The Central Plains is prosperous, with many people and towering cities. The Qin army would be fortified on the northern shore of Rushui, and in terms of the width of the battle line, there were at least three large cities in this section, as well as many small Lu tribes, which hardly looked like a field battle, but probably a street battle. Xiong Jing doesn't like street fighting, the Chu army has sharp weapons, and the use of sharp weapons requires open terrain, and a bunch of cities and Lu clans are blocking in front of them, not to mention exerting firepower, and the battlefield will not be clear when the time comes.

"There are many cities in the north of Rushui." Zhuang Wudi understood what Xiong Jing was thinking, but the strategist was not worried about the front, but the side. "However, the north of Zhanban, the Yuya Mountain is terribly mountainous, and there is a fear of ambush, so our army should have an army into the north of Zhanban to defend the left flank."

In the sixteenth year of Xianggong, Jin Xun Yan and Luan Huang (Yan), the commander of Chu to report the battle of Song Yangliang. The prince of Chu Ge Shuaishi, and the Jin division fought in Zhanhan, and the Chu division was defeated. The Jin division then invaded outside the city, and returned to Xu Xu.

In 557 BC when King Chu Kang, the Jin State attacked Chu in order to retaliate against the Battle of Yangliang, the two armies had fought in Zhanban, the Chu army was defeated and retreated, and the Jin division then invaded the jurisdiction outside the city of Chu State, and when he returned, he crusaded against the Xu State, and then returned in a huff.

The Zhanban where the two armies fought was on the north bank of Zhanshui on the north side of the river (now Dongdaying Village to Jingying Village in Pingdingshan City), which was about 40 li long and two and a half miles wide, and the north of Zhanban was a mountain range. From the map, Zhanban and Xiangcheng have a kind of symmetry in their positions - the mountains north of Zhanban and south of Xiangcheng form a huge acute angle from northwest to southeast, and the sides on both sides of the acute angle are about 50 miles long.

From Zhanban to Xiangcheng, you have to climb two mountains with an altitude of about 300 meters in a straight line to reach the south bank of Rushui; If you don't climb over the mountains, you have to follow the mountain on the south side of the acute angle all the way east to the apex of the acute angle, and bypass this huge acute angle to go north to Xiangcheng.

The ancients did not have such a detailed map in front of Xiongjing's eyes, they stood on the flat ground and looked up at the mountains, and saw that the mountains were scattered and undulating like fish teeth, so it was named Fish Tooth Mountain. In the eighteenth year of Xianggong (555 BC), 'Chu Shi attacked Zheng, second to Yuling. The right division of the city is thorny, and then it is involved, which is inferior to Zhan Ran. Zhu Zi Feng and Gongzi Ge led the Rui division to invade Fei Hua, Xu Mi, Xianyu, Yongliang, returned to Meishan on the right, and invaded the northeast of Zheng...... 'There is revenge and no revenge is not a gentleman, the Jin division crossed Zheng Guo to attack Chu, and Chu quickly retaliated back, especially punished Zheng Guo who allowed the Jin division to pass through the border and provided grain and straw. The Yuling where the Chu division was stationed, that is, the Yuya Mountain.

Fish Tooth Mountain is not so much a mountain, but rather an acute angle composed of mountains six or seven miles wide and dozens of miles long. With the exception of mountains, there are plains inside and outside the acute angles. And the mountains are not without gaps like Fangcheng, the mountains have many gaps, especially in the south. There is a gap in the northwest of Zhansaka, and the second large gap is at the southern end of Zhansaka.

The Chu army and the Qin army lined up across the Rushui River, and Yuya Mountain was on the left side of the Chu army. Suppose Li Xin arranges an ambush in Yuya Mountain (within the acute angle), and kills from the gap between the north and south during the battle, he will definitely be able to slam the back of the Chu army. Therefore, the strategists believed that it was necessary to occupy Yuya Mountain before they could line up to the south of Rushui.

"To occupy Yuya Mountain, how many soldiers do you need?" With detailed and accurate maps and contour lines, Xiong Jing could feel the importance of Yuya Mountain without being physically present at it, and he even doubted that the Qin army would defend Yuya Mountain.

"If the Qin people don't defend it, the four divisions will do. If the Qin people are defended, many mountain passes will need at least six divisions. Peng Zong spit out a number, which was a preliminary estimate. He was talking about regular divisions, and the thirty-two regular divisions had to spend at least one-eighth of their troops to occupy Yuya Mountain, which made Xiong Jing frown slightly.

This will inevitably dilute the strength of the frontal attack, and even if the Qin army is defeated, it will not be able to annihilate the Qin army. In the Battle of Weinan, the Qin army was divided by the Qinling River after the defeat, and the Chu army held the mountain pass and the ferry, which could pump water to catch fish.

Xiangcheng is different, more than 30 miles behind Xiangcheng is Yingshui, and there is Fencheng Plug on Yingshui. 陉 is the meaning of the mountain pass, the two sides of Yingshui are mostly plains, but there are also low mountain ranges, these mountains are mostly concentrated on both sides of Yingshui, and the mountain pass that is convenient for crossing the water is blocked, which is Fen Cheng Sai. As long as the Qin army retreated more than 30 miles and passed through the Fencheng Fortress, it would be able to rest and fight again. They will only be pursued, not wiped out.

Xiong Jing's eyes were staring at Fen Chengsai, and Dou Yu Pheasant and Sima Shang's eyes were also staring at Fen Chengsai. Sima Shang said: "Can our army pull out the Fencheng plug first?" Cut off the return of the Qin people. ”

"Rushui and Yingshui were both silted up by the Qin people, and our army could not go north. There are Qin people's war boats on the water, I am out of the division, if it is too early, the Qin people will hear the news far away, if it is too late, it will not help. "Zhuang is not authentic. It is impossible for the advisers not to discuss it. It's just that the Qin army guarding Xiangcheng can retreat directly to Fencheng without a decisive battle with the Chu army, or they can retreat to Yique (now Yichuan) in the northwest along Rushui, and they can also retreat to the extremely precipitous Yangcheng (now Dengfeng Xucheng Town).

"If the two armies really fight each other in Xiangcheng, the ministers are willing to pull out the Fencheng Fortress!" Fei Jing and Xiang Chao spoke the same voice and asked for their lives together.

"Nonsense." Xiong Jing waved his sleeves and reprimanded. "When will it be the cavalry's turn to storm the Fortress?"

"If you want to annihilate the Qin people, you must use cavalry to attack the Fencheng fortress, otherwise you won't be able to." Sima Shang persuaded. He knew the preciousness of cavalry, but no matter how valuable the soldiers were, they were not meant to be used in wartime.

"Time is on me." Xiong Jing is still opposed. "After this battle, the Qin people will be terrified when they hear about the Chu army. And when the soldiers of the Bashu Han Dynasty became an army, the defeat of the Qin people was certain. Why should we rush it? ”

Sima Shang was the general of the Zhao army, Xiong Jing did not reprimand directly, but reasoned. The truth is correct, but the problem is that my 'I' does not include Zhao Ren. The Chu people are getting stronger day by day, but the Zhao people in the northern city of Daliang are weakening day by day. After annihilating Li Xin in a war, the Zhao State can be restored within five years, but when the Chu State trains those newly formed divisions and brigades, there will still be many people left in the 100,000 Zhao army?

Sima Shang is not easy to say these words, and he can only smile bitterly in his heart about Xiong Jing's decision. His heartfelt fox baby took the opportunity to say: "Dare to ask the king to allow our army to be on the right, if it is on the right, after our army crosses the Rushui, it can go straight to Fen Chengsai." ”

"Zhao Jun on the right?" Sima Shang was the right general, and the Chu state respected the left, so the 80,000 Zhao troops were placed in a secondary position: the left flank of the army. The northern edge of the acute angle intersects with Rushui in the northwest of Xiangcheng, which means that the further west it goes, the narrower the flat land between the mountains and Rushui, and the Zhao army is stuffed in this horn. The left wing can also cross Rushui, but it is farther away from Fencheng than the right flank of Douyu Pheasant east of Xiangcheng.

"No." Dou Yu Pheasant was the first to disagree with this swap. "The left flank is narrow, the cavalry is not conducive to deployment, and our army can only be on the right side of the formation."

The Chu army had cavalry, but the Zhao army had no cavalry, and the fox baby did not dare to say that the cavalry of the Chu army belonged to the command of the Zhao army.

"Left and right, all are killing the enemy." Peng Zong played a round game. "Although our cavalry does not pull out the block, they can also quickly go to the front of the Fencheng fortress after the Qin army is defeated. In that year, the Wei army was defeated by Chen Ying, and the king captured 100,000 Wei troops, all of which were re-ridden. Moreover, the Qin people were not credible. Does Li Xin dare to fight? Li Xinruo didn't dare to fight......"

"Report ——!" It seems that in order to confirm Peng Zong's judgment, a military report suddenly came from outside the account. "The Qin people burned the boat bridge and carried a heavy load, and the army retreated."