"A thunderous instrument, such as a wife, how can it be borrowed from others?" Before Xiong Jing could speak, Peng Qiu, the impatient general of Pi Shizhi, scoffed at the Qi envoy's request. Relying on gunpowder and artillery, the Chu army blocked the bombing of the city, the enemy blocked and bombed the enemy, and the battle was as simple as walking. Such a treasure can not be given by giving some silk and some beauties?

"The king, the thundering vessel, the benefit of Chu, cannot be borrowed." Dong Yegu, the general of the Lu division and one of the Zhu Ao, also hurriedly said. Qilu has been entangled for hundreds of years, and the artillery has been lent to the Qi State, and Ludi is in danger.

"Dare to ask the Qi envoy, and now the Qin people are all running to me, the East County is empty, and the Qi people don't know how to attack the city without the thundering weapon?" Pei Shi's general is even more disdainful. They were all divisions north of the Song Dynasty, and like the Southern Route Army, the Northern Route Army was also assembled in two groups, and the Sui Division, Xi Division, Period Division, and Cai Division, which had previously attacked Nanyang, were all on the front line.

"The king, the minister thinks that the Qi army has the weapon to break the city, and it is not impossible to break the city." Chen Shi's Chen Bu is not as unpleasant as others, and he speaks very tactfully. "And the division is good at fighting, and it is easy to break the city."

"Ahem......" The cadres and generals at the bottom objected, and Xiong Jing coughed after a while, he looked at Dou Yu Pheasant, the general of the Northern Route Army, "Chuqi is the country of the alliance, Dou Qing thinks it is ......, what should I do?" ”

"Great King, the Qi people have sent troops several times, but they have not fought with the Qin people. The minister didn't know ......, "Dou Yu Pheasant is the successor of Cheng Jie, Cheng Jie is not dead, Cheng Jie is the commander of the Northern Route Army." Compared with Sven's Lu division and the Song Di division, which are not strong in combat, the upper reaches of Huaishui and Rushui are the strongest.

"Tell the king, if there is a thunderous weapon, Qi Shi will pull out Dongjun." Tian Helang said. "Although I have the weapon to break the city, it will take months to break the city. If you can't quickly pull out Dongjun, how can you contain the Qin people to help the Chu army? ”

"Tell the king, if there is a thunderous weapon in Yiyi, you should attack Rongyang Chenggao to control the Qin army." Wei Jian also said. If Dongjun is just a disease of ringworm scabies of the Qin people, then Rongyang and Chenggao are the problems of the Qin people's heart. Regardless of whether they can be attacked or not, whether they can be defended or not, what the monarchs and ministers of Wei want is to get the things in their hands first.

"Then why don't you save Zhao?" Xiong Jing asked. "It's not to attack Qin, it's to save Zhao."

"King, the attack on Dongjun is to save Zhao." Tian Aidao. "Dongjun pulled out, when crossing the river to save Handan."

"The king wanted to make Yi save Zhao, so Yi sent troops to save Zhao." What Wei Jianwu said just now was actually for the sake of the Chu State, and saving Zhao could not help the Chu State contain the Qin army, and it was okay to attack Rongyang and Chenggao.

"Please make a young marquis." Dou Yu Pheasant looked at Xiong Jing, and looked at Li Ji, who had only arrived in Wancheng the day before yesterday, and several people had ideas in their hearts.

He said this, Xiong Jing agreed, and asked Tian He and Wei Jian to go down and rest. After the two left, the general in the tent also retreated. Dou Yu Pheasant said: "If Qi Wei can save the Zhao people, this is a great good." ”

"Save Zhao ...... at this time" Li and understand the meaning of fighting the pheasant, but thinking of the current situation in Zhao State, he doesn't have much hope." Wang cut through Zhao, and the division army went straight to the heart of Zhao. Today's Zhao State, south of Yan and Dai, only a few cities in Handan exist, what is the benefit of saving it? Let the two armies go west to Nanyang to help me. ”

"It's best to help me, but now the boats are all in Jiuying, and it takes twenty or thirty days to get here by land, and there is no grain to transport." Xiong Jing Road. The Great Sima Mansion did not include the Qi and Wei armies in the plan at the beginning. "At most, 100,000 Wei troops will help me."

"Handan is not down, and Zhao Di is unstable. If our army invades Xianyang, Zhao Jing will be restored in the near future. The countries are fighting, but the Qi country has sat back and watched so far, and the national strength has not been damaged. "Higashino Gudo. He's looking for the future.

"Dong Yeqing is worried that the Qi country is too strong, but he is worried that the Qi army is not strong." Xiong Jing is not a Lu person, and he was not affected by the grievances between Qilu. "The one who attacked Handan, Wang Jianye. This man is a good fighter and should not be underestimated. If Zhao is defeated, the artillery ......"

"If the Wei army helps me, the Qi army will be 200,000, and Xiang Bo's four divisions will be 30,000." Zhuang is not authentic. "Wang Jian's army attacking Handan is only 200,000, and the rest are all in the river. The artillery can be handed over to the Xiang division first, and then to Qi Wei, so that nothing is lost. ”

Zhuang Wudi can only be regarded as Xiong Jing's staff, and his words made Xiong Jing think for a while. However, it is indeed a waste that the Qi Wei army is piled up in Daliang, or just to attack Dongjun and Rongyang.

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing looked at Li Er, his opinion was very important.

"Qi Wei's army, if you can't help me, it's better to save Zhao. The country of Zhao is not dead, and it can be controlled. "I also began to think about the post-war period." Ranchen still has something to tell the king: If the artillery is attributed to Xiang Bo to save Zhao, will he attack Qinzu? If we save Zhao, will our army have enough gunpowder? ”

The old gunner with a bunch of young gunners who were only twelve years old, this is the current situation of the artillery of the Chu army. Even the gunners on the sea boat were transferred, so that two artillery regiments and a siege artillery battalion were barely gathered. Transferred to save Zhao, how many cannons should be transferred to save Zhao? That's a problem.

Another problem is gunpowder. The ratio of bullet to ammunition was originally only 3:1, but because of the lack of power of gunpowder, it became 3:4. Taking a fifteen-pound cannon as an example, firing a shell requires 5221 grams of gunpowder. One hundred and forty-four guns, calculated for two hundred rounds, required one hundred and fifty tons of gunpowder, including fifteen tons of sulfur.

And that's not the main thing, the main thing is to blow up the walls. The city wall more than 20 meters thick costs 20 tons each time - Xiongjing's practice of blowing up Jiangling City on three sides has caused a burst of complaints from the Operations Division and the Armaments Division, and if the king wants to fight like this, the Chu army can only stop at Baiyu City, and it is 200 tons to bomb ten cities. For extremely thick city walls like Wuguan and Xianyang, it is estimated that the medicine is close to 100 tons. Before the war, the Chu army had stockpiled more than 600 tons of gunpowder and did not plan to save Zhao.

"Saving Zhao is a field battle, and a battalion of artillery is enough." Under Li Ji's reminder, Xiong Jing thought carefully before answering.

"How's gunpowder?" Li asked again, the armament department Jing Xue nodded again and again, in addition to the existing in the army, he still has more than 260 tons of gunpowder left in his hand, of which 200 tons are reserved for Wuguan and Xianyang. One of the reasons why the Chu army did not break the city much was to save gunpowder.

"It's just an artillery battalion, and there is enough gunpowder. And after the storm season in the Red Ocean, the sea boats can bring back dozens of tons of sulfur. "The sulphur bears are no longer worried, and the Seleucid merchants can only provide a few hundred kilograms of sulfur at the beginning, and then they can provide a few tons, and now they have a supply of dozens of tons.

"It's not enough saltpeter." After saying that, he had some regrets. The output of the nitrate fields is very low, and the more than 60 tons of sulfur transported back from Wolbley Harbour may not have more than 400 tons of saltpeter to match.

"How can this be?" Dou Yu Pheasant heard that it was insufficient, but he didn't know what it was.

"That's enough." Xiong Jing Road. "No, the gunpowder for this battle is enough."

"Our army broke the city, all by gunpowder." Dou Yu pheasant said. "Without gunpowder, there would be countless dead."

Without siege equipment, the march was naturally rapid; Don't use human lives to attack or annihilate the city, the casualties will naturally be greatly reduced. Now the morale of the Chu army has reached its peak, and every division wants to go to the battlefield but can't, and when they hear that the Qin people are coming, they really hope that the Qin people can run faster. Of course, this is just the idea of ordinary soldiers, Dou Yu Pheasant knows that the Qin army that rushed to not only outnumber the Chu army, but also all elite, this battle is not easy to fight.

The discussion within the shogunate ended quickly, and Tian He and Wei Jian were respectively summoned to the shogunate for talks. After paying the price of fourteen more artillery pieces than originally planned, basically sending 10,000 soldiers to the price of one cannon, Qi and Wei were willing to help Chu save Zhao. As for the engineer troops after rescuing Zhao, helping Qi to conquer Dongjun and Wei to conquer the area south of the Yellow River, that is a later story.

"Father, father...... "Daliang Chengyi Mansion, Xiang Chao hurriedly walked into the Ming Hall." The king came to the news and was expected to save Zhao. ”

"Ahh What? Xiang Yan was looking at the map of Nanyang County. The Qi army was reluctant to save Zhao, and the king of Wei believed that 130,000 people were not Wang Jian's opponents, so he was unwilling to send troops.

"The king has news, saying that the Qi people begged for artillery, gave him twenty fifteen-pound cannons, and the Qi people were willing to send troops to rescue Zhao." Xiang Chao pointed at Feixun, his face full of smiles.

"Good. Great goodness! "Xiang Yan is old, he holds the text in both hands, and he can only see the small words on it when he stretches it far away." But when did the artillery arrive in our army? When will the Qi army be able to rescue Zhao? ”

Xiang Yan read all the interrogations and read the two things very carefully, such as command and artillery. The order was clear, the artillery given to the Qi State was still operated by the gunners of the Chu army, even if the Zhao State was saved, it would be the same in the future. Before handing over to the two countries, the Chuqi coalition was still under his command.

"Wanjun is the fastest waterway here, but the water is about 2,000 miles, or it takes ten days." Peng Zong also finished reading the article. "I thought that with the heart of the Qi people, when our army attacked Lantian, we would send troops to rescue Zhao."

Qi people have always been cunning. It's just that because of the status of allies, no Chu army Sima or courtier will speak out about Qi people's cunning, which hurts the feelings of Qi people too much, but this is the case with Qi people in the eyes of Chu people.

Peng Zong's judgment is extremely reasonable. In the eyes of the Qi people, the Qin army was hurrying to Nanyang, and the Chu army was bound to fight to the death with the Qin army that rushed in order to stabilize the back road. This battle, like the battle of Gongyi that never happened, was about the fate of the world. Of course, the Qi people are willing to stand on the side of the victor, as long as the Chu army defeats the Qin army, they will still take advantage of the situation to attack Qin if they don't give artillery.

It's just that what the Qi people don't know is that the Chu State mobilized the boats of the whole country, and even mobilized countless women and students to row to achieve strategic deception, which was a time difference. The Chu army would not fight a decisive battle with the Qin army at Nanyang, but would quickly move west and attack Wuguan. The reason why the Northern Route Army was stagnant in Nanyang was because this section of Hanshui had just been opened, and perhaps now the Northern Route Army led by Cheng Tong and Ruo Ao Duxing had gone against the Danshui.

"In that case, I'll have no worries." Xiang Yan had no excitement on his face, and in a few days, all eyes of the world would converge on Lantian. It is certain that the Qi army will pull out the camp, Lantian is less than one hundred and fifty miles away from Xianyang, and if the Chu army comes here, the Qin state will die.

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