And Zhao Zheng will not die, with the national strength of Qin, he will not wait for next year, and he will make a comeback this year. Then there was a war of attrition that lasted for years. Now that the Qin army has almost destroyed the Zhao State, there are very few Zhao soldiers and soldiers left in Yandi and Daidi, probably no more than 100,000. With this, not to mention the counteroffensive, it would be good if it could be maintained. The world is big, and the Qin State has accounted for the third. If you really want to fall into a long war of attrition, it will be the state of Chu that will be lost, not the state of Qin.

The sky was dark, the whole Chen Ying was like a ghost town, and Xiang Yan smelled a smell of corpses as soon as he entered the city gate. The closer you get to Wangcheng, the more obvious the smell becomes. Fortunately, the place to stay is not Wangcheng, but the big city behind Wangcheng.

Knowing that the Chu army did not attack Aocang, most of the more than 100,000 Chu troops lived in the city, sleeping in the military tents left by the Qin and Wei armies, and eating the corn left by the Qin and Wei armies, at this time Xiong Jing slowly knew what had happened outside in the past month.

Under Xiang Yan's description, the state of Qin did come for himself, and the object of the alliance in the mouth of the king of Qin was the new king, not himself. If the Qin State is not severely attacked and a situation is formed to unite again, even if this situation is false, the Qin State will continue to attack the Chu State.

The state of Qi ceded the north of Xiapi without being moved, the king of Qi was too timid, or the state of Qin was too scary. But Lianqi can't be repeated, it must be continued, and one day King Qi will be bold.

The county magistrate Yin in the country is really against the sky, and there is a bastard like Yang Wenjun. If the purpose of Qin's attack on Chu was for himself, then he must have colluded with Qin very early. The Qin army was in charge of besieging the city, and he was in charge of civil strife, the purpose of which was naturally to make the state of Chu embark on the pro-Qin road again, which was actually what the Empress Dowager Huayang and Changping Jun had always hoped for.

At that time, Chu and Qin Tong were regarded as barbarians by the Central Plains countries, and since the king of Chu Cheng and Qin Mugong, the two countries began to marry, and it has been nearly 400 years. Such a long-term marriage has made the state of Chu always waver and make mistakes in the alliance with Qin and Qi. After King Huai and King Xiang paid enough price for this, some people in China still had illusions about the Qin State, ignoring that the Qin State was no longer the simple Qin State of the past.

Joining Qi is an unshakable national policy of Chu in the future, but Chu will undoubtedly become the western barrier of Qi and will be constantly attacked by the Qin army. This is also a matter of no way, the geographical location determines that the Chu State must play such a role, just like the geographical location of the Qin State in the Spring and Autumn Period must be the flank ally of the Chu State to jointly deal with the powerful Jin State.

Qin and Qi were the key to Chu's diplomatic strategy, and Zhao, which was blocked by Qin's eastern county on the north bank of the Yellow River, could only become a lone army, unless the Chu army could really become a naval army planned by the Great Sima Mansion. It's just that the Yellow River is not as good as the Yangtze River, the channel is very unfixed, and it will freeze when it is cold in winter, and in the spring, the ice melts and the river is blocked, and it is impossible to sail.

Diplomacy is like this, internal affairs are a mess, and the county dares not to send troops to Qin Wang, and other complicit rebellion. Replacing the county with a meritorious scholar will definitely cause the administrative organization of the Chu State to be paralyzed in a certain period of time, and even civil strife will break out, but Xiong Jing didn't expect it to be at such a critical moment. What to do with these county towns is a tricky issue.

If you don't kill, as long as the timing is right in the future, these estimates will relapse into the old ways, which will cause political turmoil; Killed, these old foxes sent troops in the name of the Gong clan again, how to kill? They are tantamount to being a feudal monarch, the county has been in business for many years, and there are county guards under them, so they really ran to the Qin State, and it is not a joke to help the Qin army lead the way in the future.

When the ministers discussed, Xiang Yan mentioned Ruo Ao's solo journey after the Ruo Ao clan and praised his pioneering achievements. Speaking of Ruo Ao's Xiong Jing has relatives, the harm brought by Emperor Miao Ben to the Chu State is still small, and Emperor Miao Ben just let the Chu army lose the battle of Yanling, and the Qu Wu Church after him made the Wu people a fierce rival of the Chu State; Later, Wu Zixu led the Wu army to attack Jiying, and the state of Chu was almost destroyed; and after Bai Gongsheng, Bai Qi slashed down with a sword, and the Chu State was cut into two parts, east and west, and the ancestral tomb of the clan was lost.

In the eight hundred years of the Chu State, every aristocratic dump had to pay an unimaginable price, and the background of every aristocratic dump was the expansion of royal power. It's just that the purpose of the New Deal is not to expand the royal power at all, but to strengthen the clans and let them regain the bravery they abandoned by them, is this also wrong? Or do they simply not have the courage to fight bravely again, so they can only sleep on the soft couch, listen to the beautiful sounds, and hug the beauty for a long time?

Xiong Jing didn't sleep all night, and the next day he woke up early, and went back to sleep in a daze, and waited until noon before he got up to wash.

The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the spring breeze was blowing, making him doze off. In the era when there was no coffee, he could only drink a few sips of strong tea to suppress sleepiness, but if he drank too much tea, he would lack calcium, so he had to tell Changjiang to eat tofu at night.

Tofu originates from the gypsum of the bones, and Xiong Jing, who found the plaster, unconsciously remembered tofu. There is this experiment in middle school chemistry class, the alcohol lamp heats the soy milk to 80 degrees and then adds saturated gypsum water, the soybean milk will solidify, and the filter cloth will be wrapped and cooled to become a piece of tofu. Even if there was gypsum soy milk during the siege, he was embarrassed to eat tofu alone, and now that the city is not besieged, he can't wait to become a fat man in one day - in order to show that he shared the joys and sorrows with his fellow soldiers, he was about to go crazy after eating corn pickles for several months.

The king slept until noon and had fried tofu to eat at night, and Xiang Yan and others, who had not slept all night, stayed up until noon without resting. Unlike the cavalry of the Qin army the year before last when the entire battlefield was suppressed, now the cavalry of the Chu State has completely defeated the Qin cavalry, and there have been continuous reports since last night. After learning that there was another Qin army sixty miles away, Xiang Yan was very worried that they would come back.

"I've seen the king." As soon as he entered the shogunate, the soldiers and generals saluted Xiong Jing, and no one cared about the king's sleep.

"No courtesy." Xiong Jing exhaled. "How is Qin Jun?"

"Tell the king, the Qin army abandoned the city and did not defend it, and it was already in the Wei realm." Xiang Yan asked, and he added another piece of news: "Last night, the captured Wei general told him that the Qin army Wang Jian led an army of 50,000 to save Yan, so the Qin army and the soldiers in the battle were only 100,000. ”

"One hundred thousand?" Xiong Jing was silent. 100,000 is indeed too little, but with the addition of Wang Jian's 50,000, this is already 150,000.

"Yes, yes. The king was brave and brave, and the two armies of Qin and Wei suffered tens of thousands of casualties in order to attack Chen Ying, and there were burial pits all over the city. Xiang Yan looked at Xiong Jing with admiration. The siege battle was so tragic that only the Battle of Handan more than 20 years ago can be compared.

"This is Lian Qing's attack, not just to watch." Xiong Jing's mention of Lian Po made Xiang Yan's face change slightly, but he smiled secretly in his heart and said: "However, if there is no Xiang Qing to save him, whether it is not a good person, or Lian Qing, 40,000 soldiers will definitely die in battle Chen Ying." ”

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister is too late, and he asks the king to atone for his sins." Xiang Yan said again, he stayed in Xiangcheng, and he really wanted to investigate this as a capital crime.

"What is Xiang Qing's crime?" Xiong Jing laughed. He had heard about Xiang Yan's stay in Xiang Cheng, and with the situation at that time, Xiang Yan really decided his life. Since Xiang Yan had already made a choice, he had no intention of pursuing his hesitation at that time.

"The Qin people are cunning, our army is insufficient, and Xiang Qing is just being deceived by them for the time being." Xiong Jing quickly changed the topic, and he asked: "In yesterday's battle, how many were our army injured and killed, and there are still soldiers, and what are the people who can paddle?" ”

Xiong Jingzhi's question was naturally to attack Ao Cang, Xiang Yan was in high spirits when he heard this, and he said: "Tell the king, our army injured more than 14,000 people yesterday and killed more than 4,800 people, and Chen Ying's army, there are 160,000 soldiers who can fight, and more than 45,000 soldiers who can paddle. ”

"Three injuries and one death?" Xiong Jing muttered. According to the report of the Operations Division of the Great Sima Mansion, the casualty ratio of evenly matched battles and victorious battles was about five to one, but I didn't expect it to be reduced to three to one now.

"The Great King: This is the reason for the armor." After the Great Sima Mansion began to pay attention to the casualty ratio, the non-battle loss rate, and the exchange ratio between friends and enemies last year, Peng Zong, the military Sima, also began to have these concepts in his mind.

"It's because of the armor." Xiang Yan also said that he inspected the whole army in the morning, and the soldiers were still wearing armor, and almost all of them had scars. "Yesterday's battle was extremely fierce, and when the Wei army was defeated, the Qin army's sharp soldiers almost wanted to break our left army, but fortunately, the soldiers had huge armor, and the bronze beryllium was not broken."

"If you fight again in a year, the Chu army will be defeated." Xiong Jing said confidently, and there was such a joy of harvest between his words. "Let's go see the wounded." After he was happy, he thought of the wounded soldier again, "If there is something to talk about, we will talk about it while walking." ”

"Oh Hitoya." Xiang Yan sighed. In his impression, the wounded barracks were filthy and screaming. Not to mention the king, even the lord will not dare to go in person, it is a place of epidemics, and if the lord is not careful, the gain will outweigh the loss.

Xiong Jing and Xiang Yan went to the wounded camp together, Peng Zong wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw that the historians on the left and right behind Xiong Jing did not react, he endured it. In order to reduce the movement of the wounded, the wounded camp was located in the location of the tour yesterday, the difference was that there was a curtain around the outside, and a huge military curtain like the shogunate inside. Far away from the camp, Peng Zong smelled a smell of wine, Xiong Jing and Xiang Yan also smelled wine, and several people were in the downwind position of the wounded camp.

"It's just sterilized with wine." Xiang Yan and Peng Zong couldn't ride a horse, so they could only ride on the Rong chariot, and Xiong Jing controlled the speed of the horse and walked slightly ahead.

"Wine can be sterilized?" Xiang Yan didn't understand these things at all, and Xiong Jing couldn't explain too much, so he could only laugh at them.

When everyone entered the camp, the smell of alcohol disappeared, and the wounded soldiers inside were calm, they were basking in the sun, and the shamans in red robes were busy.

"The king has an order: Don't think the king is here. Thou shalt recuperate from thy wounds. Several loud voices that accompanied Xiong Jing into the camp shouted. It's just that Chen Ying's defenders know this rule, and these people don't understand what 'don't think the king is here' at all. One by one, they bowed to the ground in pain, shouting to meet the king, and Xiong Jing had a headache.

"No need to salute!" shouted loudly and loudly, and more and more wounded soldiers could salute.

"Whoever dares to salute, behead." Xiong Jing had to pretend to be a villain, and after this order, the wounded soldier did not dare to salute, but his face was full of confusion.