"The king is in a hurry." Looking at Xiong Jing, who had changed into Wei Ben's suit, Song Yu said so. There were still many matters after the enthronement ceremony, but Xiong Jing had to ride a horse for more than 100 miles to go to the camp in Xixian County, and other things had to be put down, and the war was the most important.

"I'm in a hurry." Xiong Jing knew in his heart that he was in a hurry, whether it was on the itinerary or politically.

"King Xianjun Zhuang ascended the throne, he didn't sing for three years, and he didn't fly for three years......" Song Yu stopped halfway through his words, and he knew the rest of the meaning Xiong Jing understood. Xiang Yan's move and the momentum of the county Yin, hundreds of years of accumulation, is not a day's work. ”

"Teacher, I understand. But there's no time. Xiong Jing sighed. The first monarch Zhuang Wang had three years of taoguang and obscurity, but the students did not even have three months. It's better to fight if you don't scream, it's better to fly angrily if you don't fly, if you don't do your best at this time, Chu Guozhen will be gone. ”

"Hey!" This time it was Song Yu's turn to sigh, after weeping the sand, there was no more dangerous moment than at this time, even if the Qin army pulled out Yan Ying and the first king moved the country eastward. In such a dangerous situation, it is a child who has not yet been put on the throne. Whoever else is me, who else is me, this is not bad, those concubines who have been crowned have never been so heroic, let alone so confident.

"Rest assured, the students will expel the Qin people and return triumphantly." Xiong Jing smiled, and his words were heartwarming.

"The king is looking at you, the ancestors of the Chu Kingdom are looking at you, and the Eastern Emperor will bless you." Song Yu also smiled and said comfortingly. Then, he watched this student, who had already become the king, walk out of the Ming Hall, walked down the temple, and finally bid farewell to the Queen Mother Zhao, and then got on a small pony, surrounded by all the knights, and went to the north gate of the palace. When the last knight walked out of the north gate, Xiong Jing's red cloak was still dangling in Song Yu's eyes.

"Don't worry, Doctor Song, this trip is auspicious." Song Yu stood on the steps, the north wind blew his white beard flying, and people seemed to be swept away by the wind. Taibu Guanji knew that he was worried about the king, so he told him.

"Is this battle auspicious?" Song Yu also knew that the result of this trip of divination was auspicious, but what about the war.

"Whether Zhan Ji should ask the military Sima or not, I don't know." Guan Ji said that he was originally to comfort Song Yu, but when he talked about the war, he also stood on the steps, blowing the north wind of hulala.

"Whether the battle is good or not depends on the morale of the army, and if you don't doubt it, what can you decide?" Nao Cunning also came, and Zhao Huang. "My Chu country has such a heroic king, and this battle will defeat the Qin people."

Nao is cunning and full of confidence for no reason. To be honest, the Chu army, which was negligent in battle and rarely trained, was significantly weaker than the Qin army, as evidenced by the battle of Jiangyi, but the brute courage and patriotism in the hearts of the Chu people were by no means inferior to those of the Qin people. Nao has been cunning in the army for a long time, although he can't say the specific advantages and disadvantages of the two, he can always feel the unyielding fighting spirit of the Chu people.

Nao is cunning and self-confident for no reason, and in Chengyang, more than 100 miles away, the guard Chen Qi is happy for reason. Because, the Qin people withdrew.

As the former Yingdu, even if it was only temporary, the royal city was extremely tall and strong. On the wall of the royal city, which was densely covered with canals and arrows, the guard general Chen Qi and the military Sima Chen Bu and others were watching the boundless Qin army outside the city converge into several torrents, and rushed north to the sound of horses neighing and footsteps. The generals could see it, and the soldiers defending the city could see it through the gaps between the canals. I don't know who shouted, 'The Qin people have withdrawn,' and the inner city, which was less than 500 meters long and wide, suddenly everyone shouted, and the sound of long live continued.

It's just that the Qin army, which has been besieging the city for a long time, can't see that its enemies are so happy, and it didn't take long to cheer here, and there was a rain of arrows on the outer city wall, and the arrows were shot with crossbows, and the range was far greater than that of a longbow. A rain of arrows flew by, and the cheers of the inner city immediately changed to exclamations, mixed with some screams, and many people were hit by arrows. The Qu answer in front of Chen Cheng was also swayed by the crossbow arrows, but fortunately, the Qu answer was very thick, and even the crossbow could not be shot through.

"The Qin people are going, it must be the general who is coming to help!" Chen Qi's eyes were bloodshot, his whole body was full of war blood, and his voice was hoarse, which only those who were close could hear it clearly.

"The Qin people even transferred the army attacking Chengyang, and the general ......" Chen Bu didn't know how many people there were in the Qin army, but he knew that the Qin people were cunning, and the inner city would have to be pulled out as long as it was attacked for a few more days, and if the fat meat in the mouth was not eaten, there must be bigger fat waiting for the entrance.

"Summons the summons at once, so that the Admiral may be on his guard." Chen beggar ordered, and there was only this he could do.

"The Qin people really increased their troops." One hundred and twenty miles east of Chengyang, Xiang Yan received a news report in the evening that all the flying poles near Chengyang had been swept and destroyed by the Qin army, but sweeping away the flying poles outside the city only made Chengyang unable to receive the news, and it was no obstacle to send messages. As long as the dense mountain forest climbs to the big tree, the message sent by Chengyang will still be accepted. However, the telegram received in this way could only be sent again by the herald to a safe place, and the time would naturally not be until the evening.

"If my guess is correct, this is nearly 300,000 troops." The military Sima Peng Zong still had doubts about Xiang Yan's order to go north, and when he thought of the 300,000 Qin troops, his scalp was numb and he was restless.

"Where is the division of Koto?" Xiang Yan didn't think about Qin Jun, but asked about the Jiangdong Division.

"Today's summons says that I can camp on the outskirts of Xi County." Peng Zong replied.

"So fast?" Xiang Yan was a little surprised, he remembered that last time he said that he would arrive in Xixian County on the 11th, and today it was only the 10th.

"Our new king saw that the general of Chu State did not obey the king's orders, so he could only order the Jiangdong division to hurry up." Peng Zong looked at Xiang Yan and smiled.

"How much is the master of Jiangdong? How is the combat power? Xiang Yan didn't have the heart to laugh, the army would be Jiangyi for another day, and Jiangyi would be Yiyi for more than fifty miles. If the Qin army has 300,000, the 180,000 Chu army is also dangerous to go out of Xi County for 45 miles.

"When the Jiangdong division left Jiangdong, there were more than 56,500 people, and when they arrived in Yingdu, it was only 50,000 ......."

Xiang Yan was greatly surprised by the loss figures of the Jiangdong Division: "Why is there so much loss?" ”

"The more people stomp on their feet, the more they have no shoes, the farther the army goes, the colder the sky becomes, and there are many frostbitten people." Peng Zongdao. "Frostbitten people are routinely placed in the cities along the road, and after the injury, the local Sima will send people to send them to Xi County. In my opinion, the army of Jiangdong may only be 50,000 people. As for the combat power...... The Yue people dare to die, brittle and stupid, but not good at car warfare, there are very few vehicles in the army, and foot combat is accustomed to the mountains and forests, Jiangyi, Yiyi are all plains, I am afraid it is difficult to adapt. ”

Xiang Yan was born in Huaibei, and in the past, he was facing the north and turning his back to the south, focusing on the major events of the Central Plains, and still had little understanding of the Yue people. However, when I heard Peng Zong say that the Yue people were 'sharp soldiers dare to die, brittle and stupid', I couldn't help but nod my head again and again. For the sake of a long time, he naturally knows that apprentices must be stupid, like Chen Shi's slippery apprentices, he doesn't want to be recruited into the army. This is also the reason why he asked Chen Qi to lead the army to defend the city instead of going out of the city with him to attack the Qin realm. Only by putting them in a desperate situation, the kind of trickiness on their bodies can turn into a fighting spirit.

"There are 50,000 troops in Jiangdong, 14,000 troops of the feudal monarchs taken away by Da Sima, as well as the sanitation of Xixian County and the palace armor of the new king......" Xiang Yan counted all the troops that could be counted, but he still missed one.

"General, don't forget, Cai County's division is constantly transporting, and there are 3,000 people every day." Peng Zong reminded.

"More than 120 miles from Chengyang to Yiyi, even if it is a day and a house, it will only be there in four days, plus the pre-battle discussion and formation, at most it will only be six days, and six days will be less than 20,000 people." Xiang Yan estimated that the time for the Qin army to arrive at the decisive battle, although it was only six days, but there were 20,000 more people, so that the total number of Chu troops was nearly 270,000.

"Our army is defending Jiangyi, and the rear reinforcements are endless, if it can be delayed for another one or twenty days," Peng Zong's voice was full of temptation, "I am afraid that there are 350,000 giants, although the Qin army has 300,000, but Chengyang City, Yiyi and other places must send people to stay behind; And in Jiangyi, he fought with me, and the grain transportation grew suddenly, even if it could be helped, there must be a lot of pawns for transportation, so that the soldiers who fought with me were only 250,000, and 350,000 against 250,000, our army won. ”

"Another one or twenty days?" Xiang Yan smiled bitterly. He had no intention of going north to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army before, but yesterday the Qi army had already left Muling Pass in the south, and the Wei army would also send troops to invade the south in the near future. Once the rear city is lost after a long delay, the divisions of Ludi and the counties of Huaishang will have no intention of fighting, and just want to go home to defend the city. "Our army must fight the Qin people within ten days, otherwise it will ......"

'Drive, drive! When the moon came up, hundreds of knights on the official road were still galloping on horseback. This is the cavalry team that escorted Xiong Jing to Xi County, half of them were red-clothed sanitarians, and the remaining half were scouts who could ride horses in Jiangdong's division. After the sun set, the temperature dropped sharply, and the water vapor in the air actually fogged, and this fog was white in the moonlight, and the wisps of it swirled around the official road, and the galloping horses galloped by, and they were suddenly washed away, and disappeared into the lightless place in the forest.

Xiang Yan led the army to the north, and after discussing with the generals, Xiong Jing had to order the army to march sixty miles a day, and rush to Xixian in one day. After a three-day trip and two days, the soldiers were not dissatisfied, and they ate fighting food. But Xiong Jing, the king, had a hard time rushing to the field, and there was a distance of sixty or seventy kilometers from Qisi to the camp on the outskirts of Xi County, and it took six or seven hours to ride horses, plus the time to feed the horses and feed the water and rest in the middle, even at night, the camp in Xi County was still nowhere to be seen.

Lie on the back of the horse that is constantly undulating, and try to match the ups and downs of the body to the horse's running. Despite the stirrups and the comfortable high saddle, Xiong Jing still felt that his thighs were sore, and his butt was broken before the first break, and the most annoying thing was the pants, which kept strangling the tender flesh on the inner thighs, making it hot. At this moment, horseback riding is no longer a joyful thing, but a kind of suffering. Every time he looks ahead against the north wind, Xiong Jing hopes to find a few lights.

Hundreds of horsemen cried like thunder, quickly moving forward in the dark night, when Xiong Jing did not pray to see the lights of the barracks, but only asked for an early rest to feed the horses, suddenly a few shouts came from the front and asked: "Who is it?" Password? ”

It was the outpost of the big battalion, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the cavalry general at the front said loudly: "Long Yuan! ”

"It's Your Highness!" There was a sound of surprise at the sentry post, and it seemed that the Chinese army had already explained that Xiong Jing would go to the camp today.

"It's not Your Highness, it's the king of my Chu country." The rider spoke with great pride. He opened the way for the king for a hundred and fifty miles, and regarded himself as the glory of his life.