Once the Chu people are excited, the nine cows will not be able to pull back. It is useless to appeal to his interests, you can only slowly persuade him according to his temperament, so that he can slowly calm down. Unfortunately, under the successive victories, none of the Chu people could calm down, and those who were originally in favor of retreating to Jiangdong gradually felt that they could rely on the Great Liang and the Great Wall of Wei to hold on to Huaishang.

However, in Xiong Jing's eyes, Huaishang is a plain that can not be defended, Daliang only guards the main road, Wei State is next to the Great Song County of Qin State East County, the lotus water flowing through Taoyi (now Dingtao) turns to the south, and Surabaya meets Ludi near the Chu-Wei border, Surabaya leads directly to Pengcheng, and flows into Huaishui through Xiapi.

This is a river outside the control of the Great Liang, and along it the Qin army can threaten Pengcheng. Even this river was controlled by the Chu army, and the section from the east of Daliang to Dayozawa (present-day Juyebei) for about 400 miles was unsafe. The same is true to the west of the Great Liang, and Shangcai County outside the Great Wall of Wei and the border with Korea is also unsafe.

If the Qin army advanced by land to the left and right of Shangcai County and Dasong County of Wei, then the defense of Daliang, Chen County, and Xiang County would be meaningless, and they would be isolated to the north of the battlefield. Xiong Jing was very puzzled why Xiang Yan didn't understand this truth, was he going to die in Xiang County because he was sealed in Xiang County?

It was already late at night, Xiong Jing pressed the urge to summon Xiang Yan urgently, continued to discuss military affairs with Li He, and when he woke up the next day, he sent someone to summon Xiang Yan to know what he thought.

"Tell the king, the temples and mausoleums are all in the project, so the ministers are reluctant to go to Jiangdong." In the main bed, Xiang Yan told the truth.

"Xiangcheng can be defended?" Xiong Jing did not object directly, but asked from a different angle.

"No." Xiang Yan shook his head, but he said again: "Although it can't, if the Qin army wants to pull out Xiang City, it should kill 200,000." ”

"200,000 is just a drop in the bucket for the Qin State." Xiong Jing sighed. "Perhaps, these 200,000 are not Qin people, but Wei people, or Zhao people, Qi people. The Qin State is twice as large as me, the soldiers are more than me, one of our army died, and the Qin army should be ten people, Xiang Qing thought that the decisive battle with Qin in Huaishang would be exchanged for one to ten? ”

"King, retreat without a fight, shame. The ministers can retreat, but the soldiers don't retreat, what can I do? "Xiang Yan naturally mentioned the Chu soldiers." The people of the country have moved to Jiangdong, and they are not landless and proletarians, and they do not want to. The soldiers all heard that Jiangdong was a miasma country, and instead of retreating to Jiangdong, it was better to fight with the Qin army, and if they died, they would rather die in the country. ”

"How is Koto the land of miasma?" Xiong Jing smiled, but when he thought that Chen County was considered by the Central Plains to be the friend of Yixia, he was a little speechless.

"The minister heard that the king wanted to lead the Yingshi to attack Linzi by sea, although the sea was dangerous, but the Yingshi won the first victory, and the morale soared, and there was no choice." Xiang Yan said again. "Two thousand miles across the sea to attack the division of Linzi, but to retreat to Jiangdong without a fight, does the king think it is normal?"

Xiang Yan's rhetorical question made Xiong Jing look stunned. This is indeed a question, how can an army that can cross 2,000 miles across the sea to attack the enemy's capital retreat thousands of miles away without a fight?

The Chu army is by no means the kind of army that Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, 'the good defenders hide under the nine earths, and the good attackers move above the nine heavens, so they can protect themselves and win all'. Wu Qi once said that to deal with the Chu army, it is necessary to 'attack and disrupt its tun, first seize its strength, advance lightly and retreat quickly, and do not fight with it, its army can be defeated.' ’

'Qi' is very important. The Chu army with 'qi' and the Chu army without 'qi' are completely two manifestations. If there is 'qi', the whole army will be shocked, and the soldiers will have no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit.

"Why can't Xiang Qing teach?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. His people will only advance with a wild rush, and will never retreat without a fight. The Jiangdong and Lingnan plans that he had been thinking about for several years were in vain.

"The minister also knows that he should retreat to Jiangdong, but ......" Xiang Yan also smiled bitterly like Xiong Jing. For today's plan, it is better to attack and defend, and contain the Qin army with Zhao in the south and in the north, so that the pattern of the world remains unchanged. ”

"Zhao Ren is uneasy and kind. If I attack Qin, the Qin people attack me, and the Zhao people will not save me. Xiong Jing said. Xiang Yan proposed this idea more than once, but was rejected by Zhu Ao.

"But I have the advantage of being a boatman." Xiang Yan said again. "If Qin Ruo cuts me, you can't get it."

"How's the corn?" Xiong Jing had to talk about corn. "If Qin swallows Wei, Shangcai County and Dasong County will attack me, and the counties of Huaishang are all battlefields, how can the soldiers and civilians eat?"

"The Great King is also false." Xiang Yan said. "It is better to let the Qin people attack me again today, so that the Huaishang people can retreat to Jiangdong and fight with the Qin people in Jiangdong in the future. In this way, the fall of Zhao can be slowed down, and the Qin people will destroy Zhao at least twice, and more than three, which is beneficial to me. ”

"Huh?!" Xiong Jing looked at Xiang Yan in surprise, he only knew today that Xiang Yan actually thought like this.

"This minister's plan is also. Foolishness, this is the only plan. Xiang Yan slapped Xiong Jing in a calm tone.

"No other way? Can't you just retreat, can't you retreat? Xiong Jing hesitated for a moment before speaking again.

"The Chu people are fierce and decisive, if they are only for themselves, they would rather die than retreat." Xiang Yan said.

"Can't you admonish stern?" Xiong Jing didn't give up and asked again.

"The Chu people are unruly and forced them to retreat, even if the king can't." Xiang Yan said again.

"This ......" Xiang Yan said very right, but it was precisely because he said that Xiong Jing was a little annoyed. Although he is the king of the Chu State, he may not have the ability to reverse the will of the Chu people. According to Xiang Yan's strategy, attacking Qin was to set himself on fire, and forced the Chu people to retreat to Jiangdong on the grounds of lack of food, and he couldn't bear it.

If the Battle of Yan Ying had not been for the Qin army flooding the city with water, resulting in the drowning of all the soldiers who could fight, the Chu people would never have given up the old Ying and moved to the east. In the same way, if the Chu army had not suffered a major defeat, it would never have been possible to retreat to Jiangdong. The 200,000 Chu army, do you really have to lose everything to complete the strategic retreat? Where is this retreat, this is sending to death!

"In the battle of Daliang in the previous year, the minister thought that he should not be defeated. defeated, he can still recover in Jiangdong; Victory, he can only fight to the death with the Qin people in Huai, and there is no chance of recovery. Now that Qin is attacking Zhao, if Zhao is not saved, Zhao will die and Chu will also die. ”

Xiang Yan said again before leaving, his voice drifting in the main sleep for a long time. Xiong Jing'an sat on the mat for a long time, motionless. He seemed to know the Chu people very well, but he didn't really understand until this moment; He seemed to understand the war well, but only at this moment did he really understand.

The original plan was completely ineffective, and everything had to be reversed, and this frustration made him unable to breathe. It took him a while before he comforted himself: Maybe what Xiang Yan said may not be all right, maybe the king ordered that although the Chu people are rebellious, they will still retreat to Jiangdong......

With such comfort, Xiong Jing spent the wax sacrifice in a daze. For the Chu people, this is another rare New Year, there is no war, the price of millet has been maintained at more than 50 yuan, the peasants have money in their pockets, and they are reluctant to buy and eat what they were reluctant to buy before, but now they dare to buy and eat. The craftsmen and merchants who were engaged in the end of the business were prosperous because of this, and the vehicles transporting goods in the wind and snow blocked the port, and the big cities in various places even opened their doors a few days before the festival, making a lot of money.

The preparations for the war continued uninterrupted, and the Suzaku wandered in the rough Yellow Sea, so that the mainmast was broken by a storm and several sailors who were collecting their sails and urgently collecting their sails fell overboard. The boatmen have arrived at Langya Harbor in the latest winged warships, and they will try to cross the Yellow Sea in the first month;

Large quantities of grain, canned food, military tents, timber, and coal are being transported to Langya, and the Suzaku will successively transport these supplies to the selected place of call, which can be sailed against the wind; At the beginning of the first month, the soldiers began to assemble and conduct targeted training on the Huaishui River to adapt to the three-day and three-night endless rowing across the sea.

Everything was in order, but some difficulties remained: because of the big waves, the trebuchets could not cross the sea to Linzi, and the lack of trebuchets made the siege a problem;

The second is the tidal range, the tide and tide of the Yellow Sea are mainly semi-diurnal tides, the tidal range is the largest on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, the West Korean Bay (the Yalu River flows into the bay, the north is the Liaodong Peninsula, the south is the Wengjin Peninsula), Ganghwa Bay (the north is the Wengjin Peninsula, the south is the Taean Peninsula) The maximum possible tidal range is more than 8 meters, and Incheon can reach 10 meters. For now, we have avoided the bay and chosen to stop at Baeknyeong Island on the outer side of the Ongjin Peninsula between West Korea Bay and Ganghwa Bay, but the tidal range here is also several meters.

The only thing to be thankful for is to learn that the Yingshi will cross the sea for 2,000 miles alone to attack Linzi, and the general not only has no fear, but feels that such an attack is none other than me.

Boasting very high is also the expression of Chu Renzhi when he is complacent, Xiong Jing was a little surprised at first, but it will be clear after a while. Contrary to these happy generals, he calmed down to supervise all the arrangements for this battle, and left Yingying in the middle of the month and rushed to Langya Port.

The Ying division was preparing for the war intensely, and the Hou spy failed to penetrate into the Qi State of Chu and only heard some rumors, so the Qi State Zhou Division frequently went to Langya Port to spy outside, driving away another wave and another wave. The Qi people were indeed familiar with the Yellow Sea, and the reconnaissance boat they sent was not a large wing with a deep draft, but a kind of recklessness with a very shallow draft. As soon as the Winged Warship drove away, these raids immediately approached the sea and sailed away in the shallow water.

A few times later, the state of Chu also sent Mao Tu to Langya Port, and expelled Mao Tu, which blocked the prying eyes of the Qi people, but the Qi people were screened, and the news that Langya Port was full of military funds also spread to the Qi State and Linzi.

At this time, Tian Jian, the king of Qi, did not care about state affairs, and the Qi Prime Minister who presided over the government wanted the two countries to fight, and he was not worried about it, but he was worried about it. Tian He knew that the king of Chu would never stop there, and Tian Widow had seen the sea boat of the state of Chu, and both of them suggested that the state of Qi immediately equip it in case the boat division of the state of Chu attacked from the sea. Especially Tian Widow, in order to prevent the Chu State Boat Division from going against the water to Linzi, he actually suggested blocking the water.

The water is the passage of Linzi to the sea, and the Chu army has not yet attacked, blocking the water will only make the world laugh. Not to mention the victory, even the ministers of the DPRK and China also felt that Tian was too good at the enemy, and they were simply afraid of Chu like a tiger.