Under Xiong Jing's gaze, there was silence in the shogunate, and Xiong Jing was about to open his mouth to let the generals return to the camp with a written order, and when he was about to retreat tomorrow, someone on his side coughed, it was Right Shi Yixian. "The Great King." He said.

"During the battle of Chenwen Yi, the king of Xianjun Zhuang took Zuo Guang to chase Zhao Zhan, and the Jin people made the chariot go against it. When people were shocked, Uncle Sun said, 'Enter it.' I'd rather be thin than anyone should be thin. "Poetry" cloud: "Yuan Rong ten times, start first." Ancestors also. "Military Chronicles" said: "The ancestors have the heart to win people". Thin. ’”

The left and right histories have the duty of admonishment, but they rarely admonish. It's just that this time the stakes are very high, and many of the generals are not convinced, and the older right history admonishes. As soon as he opened his mouth, he was reminded of the old things from hundreds of years ago, and although there was nothing new, the atmosphere in the shogunate was greatly relaxed.

"Chu people are good at being the first and being persecutive. Entering the customs and retreating without a fight, the soldiers are unwilling to ......"

"What if you don't want to?" Xiong Jing looked at the generals in the tent when he spoke, and the words were said to Youshi and to the generals. "Do you know the geometry of men surnamed Mi in the country? What is the geometry of the Chu people in the country? ”

"I don't know." The state of Chu has never expected the people for hundreds of years, and there is no exact number of Dingkou. "Does the king know the nature of the Chu people?"

"The nature of the Chu people?" Xiong Jing finally looked back at him, and when You Shi saw Xiong Jing's eyes, he nodded.

"The minister has said that the Chu people are good at the first and good at coercion. The king thought that my great Chu division would advance when he beat the drum, and retreat when he beat the cymbals. However, the minister looked at the history books and knew that my Great Chu division could only advance, not retreat......"

The words of the right history made Xiong Jing stunned again, where did he hear similar remarks from Xiang Yan. It is true that the Chu army is not an army that can advance or retreat, it is an army that can only advance and will not retreat.

You Shi was still talking, but Xiong Jing had a wry smile on his face, and he had a feeling that everything was wrong. A long time ago, he formulated a strategic defense plan for the Chu army, and even drummed up a defense line from North Vietnam to Wuling. In fact, except for the construction of the city in Xiayi (which is a advance in the eyes of the Chu people), the rest of the city building plans were not approved by the generals.

Before the Ao system, he lived surrounded by Qu, Zhao and other clans and ministers of the imperial court, and he did whatever he said these people, and he worshipped whatever he wanted, so he thought he was right. After the Ao system, most of the courtiers changed, and from the mouths of these open-mouthed people, he learned that the Yuebei-Wuling defense line was repeatedly attacked by the generals.

At that time, he had some vigilance, but this vigilance was only a superficial vigilance, and he didn't really care to understand the temperament of the Chu people and didn't understand their preferences. To this day, he discovers that he is completely wrong, and he is ridiculously wrong.

In the history he knows, some people are lying on their salaries to taste their courage, some people are stealing their lives under their crotches, some people are paying money, and some people are turning thousands of miles, all of which are praised and preached as bearing the burden of humiliation. Now that I think about it, the reason why these examples were preached was because they were successful. If you think about it carefully, the evaluation of later generations actually reflects only one principle: success and defeat.

Life and death, victory and defeat, survival or death, these are supreme in the hearts of some people, but in the eyes of the real Chu people, these are not necessarily really important. The Chu people can't do it, they can't bear the humiliation of their crotch, and they will never pay money to be a minister, let alone go thousands of miles.

The Chu people do not make choices based on life and death, and do not consider problems based on victory or defeat. 'Barbarian', 'Jing Man', 'Nanman', this is the name of the Zhou people to the Chu people. Excluding the color of disdain, this description is appropriate. 'Barbarian' means reckless and reckless. The Chu people have never been realists, but idealists; Never a materialist, but a voluntarist.

Although he had been aware of this for a long time, he had not delved into it; He thought he was sensible, but in reality he was completely wrong. There is no need for the Yuebei-Wuling defense line, nor for the Xiangfan Jiancheng, nor for any strategic maneuver, what the Chu people really want is a desperate brute bully, and if they lose, they are willing to gamble and lose, win, and raise their eyebrows.

Right Shi has finished speaking, and Xiong Jing has been laughing. He laughed at his stupidity, stupid enough to think that his courtiers thought the same thing as himself; At the same time, he also felt that he was inferior, so low that he considered everything on the premise of success or failure, which should not be the thinking of kings and nobles.

"The Great King......" Xiong Jing was immersed in his own world as if no one else was there, and the ministers felt weird under the lights. Chang Jiang whispered, but Xiong Jing didn't react. When he shouted again, there was an urgent report from outside the shogunate, and the soldiers had come in.

"Tell the king, the general will lose: the road can be opened when the rooster crows."

"What do you mean?" It was precisely because the Rim River was blocked that the Chu army wanted to withdraw its troops, but they didn't expect the road to be opened, and Chengtong and others were overjoyed for a while. Zhuang Wudi and E Le were full of astonishment.

"The Witch Artillery School bombarded the rock wall with siege artillery, and the rock wall collapsed several times. The general thought that the rooster would be able to access the road when the rooster crowed. Ling Bing said again.

"King," the rooster crowed at half past one in the middle of the night, and Zhuang Wudi, who had reacted, looked at Xiong Jing. "If the road is passable when the rooster crows, the minister thinks that it can be a battle. However, Zhuang Wudi looked at the shogunate clerk who was distributing the battle plan, and said, "It is necessary to change the battle strategy quickly, otherwise the time will not be in time." ”

The rooster crows when the road is opened, and the dawn of this season is in the dawn, which means that there are only two hours left. After dawn, the Qin army assumed that the pontoon bridge and crossed the Bashui in a big way, and the battle between the two armies was likely to be in early food, or in Yan, and the large-scale battle would not be later than noon.

The Chu army had to issue a new battle plan within an hour, and the divisions should reach the pointing position before dawn, and it was best to repel the skirmish of the Qin army after dawn and block the Qin army under the Bailu Plateau. At the same time, the artillery wagons and horse-drawn carriages in the mountain streams needed to get out of the river quickly.

With foot soldiers, every twenty soldiers are equipped with a carriage, and 100,000 Chu troops are 5,000 carriages; With the addition of a regiment's artillery carriages, plus the baggage, medical battalions, commands, and shogunate carriages, there were as many as 7,000 carriages in the whole army. These carriages, if lined up in a single column, would have been one hundred and seventy miles long from end to end. If the carriage at the end of the line wants to get to the front, it will take nine and a half hours (in fact, the carriage will not travel more than fifteen miles out of Sichuan, and it only takes one hour, and the rest is all waiting time).

If the road is open at dusk, these carriages can leave Sichuan before and after the middle of the day, but now it is two hours late, and in addition to accidents and blockages, the time for the whole army's carriages to leave Sichuan may have to be delayed until dark. What can be done now is to reduce the number of carriages out of Sichuan, if there are only 3,000 carriages, then after four hours, that is, around the time of early food and Yan Shi, the Chu army can move north.

Zhuang Wudi was full of time, carriages, long marching paths, Qin troops, pontoon bridges, and military ......formations, but fortunately, the strategists in the shogunate had already formulated the battle plan after the opening of the Rim River Road, and the clerical staff only needed to revise the time and the problems caused by the delay in time. He entered the shogunate without retreating.

Xiong Jing did not blame him for his rudeness, before and during the war, the strategists and legal calculations in the shogunate were the busiest. They had to come up with a battle plan as quickly as possible and then communicate it to the whole army. Of course, this kind of tedious and meticulous paperwork may not be necessary in the eyes of the generals.

After Zhuang Wudi withdrew, Xiong Jing began to laugh at himself again, feeling a lot of loss in his heart. The generals didn't understand his psychology and thought that he was angry because of his disobedience just now. When Cheng Tong and Pan Wuming were about to confess, Xiong Jing yawned and said, "Don't be tired, you have to sleep peacefully." If you want to fight, then you will fight. The shogunate was solely responsible for the strategy of the war, and the secretaries and others must act according to orders, and must not slack off, let alone act without permission. ”

All divisions are eager to fight, it is impossible to slack off, and what Xiong Jing is really worried about is making unauthorized moves. After he finished speaking, all the generals said: "Respectfully accept the order!" ”

The war was imminent, but the king slept peacefully, and the generals looked at each other helplessly, they were not ready to sleep. Half an hour later, they got the battle order, and after listening to the explanation of the last ones of Zhuang Wudi, the generals went back to their respective camps and gave orders.

On the White Deer Plateau, the Chu army shogunate went to the tent empty. On the other side of the river, Zhao Zheng, who couldn't sleep, once again summoned Wei Yi, Zhao Yong, Meng Tian and others to discuss tomorrow's war. Except for the time when he witnessed the impact of the Zhao army's death at the head of Xianyang City and the rescue of the Chu army's iron cavalry, he had not experienced the battle himself.

The middle army, the right army, and the left army are ......, and the phalanx, the circle array, the sparse array, the several arrays, the cone formation, the goose-shaped formation, the hook formation, ......; These things that used to exist only in books and words will be truly unfolded before his eyes tomorrow. Reading the book is different from reading it in person, and he is not only not scared but a little excited. It's just that the more excited he is, the more worried the courtiers are, what if the Chu army is injured in the battle tomorrow?

Taking advantage of Zhao Zheng's change of clothes, Zhao Gao, who hurried back, said: "If the king is lost, you wait, you wait...... All are capital crimes! ”

Zhao Gao's face was full of atmosphere, and he was especially unkind to Wei Yi. Seeing him pointing at himself, Wei Yu said: "The king insists on the battle himself, what can I do?" ”

"I don't know what you can do, I just know that the king can't afford to lose," Zhao Gao said. "Don't let the king watch the battle on the king's boat!"

It was Zhao Zheng's own proposal to watch the battle on the Wang Zhou, which was four floors above the water and was about three or four zhang above the water. Standing on the king's boat to watch the battle, the Chu army without a boat division could not fight, and it could cruise back and forth on the battlefield. But Zhao Gao always felt that Wang Zhou was dangerous, wasn't King Zhou Zhao drowned by the Chu people?

"I'll wait ......" While Wei Gao was talking, Zhao Zheng, who had finished changing, had already returned, and Zhao Gao hurriedly flashed to the side when he saw this, pretending to say nothing, but his eyes were still staring at Wei Yu, Meng Tian and others.

"If the Jing people strike me with a witch weapon, what will our army do? Can a crossbow reach a witch weapon? Zhao Zheng's mind was full of details of the battle formation, what he was most worried about was the witch weapon, and the only thing he could rely on was Bai Diqiang's crossbow.

"The two armies have never faced each other, and we don't know yet." Zhao Yang said. "However, in the first battle of Huangshui, the Jingren witch weapon was as far as more than 400 steps, and it was not as strong as our army's crossbow."

"When the witch weapon is fired, it is like a thunderbolt, except that it is similar to a crossbow." Crossbow general Han Shen also said. "Our army's strong crossbow can reach more than 500 steps, and the Jingren witch weapon is not as good as it. During the battle, if you can gather strong crossbows in one place, you can also shoot King Jing. ”