The camps of the Qin and Chu armies were only a few miles apart, and there was no clash from dawn to afternoon, and in the open field, even the unscrupulous Qin military knights had reined in their momentum, leaving only a few scouts to investigate everywhere. In the next spring, Xiang Yan gathered the generals again, this is the pre-war council, all the generals have arrived, and the strange thing is that the king is not there.

"The king is not well, so he ......" The tone of the military Sima Peng Zong seemed to be a little unnatural, but before he finished speaking, the generals talked about it: the last time he fought with the Qin army, the king was sick, and the whole battle could only see the king's banner, and the king himself could not be seen at all.

"The king is young, the army is hard, and the king has to eat with the soldiers, so he is sick," the general of sanitation Yang Yu (hui) had to come out to speak, he was raised by Youji, his body is prosperous, and his archery skills are unparalleled. After Jiang, the former servant of the former king of the temporary sanitation Yin, returned to Yingying with the queen, the four thousand sanitation were led by him, and everyone fully believed his words.

"In tomorrow's battle, the king will advance and retreat with me." The king's general Qu Guang also said, and the two sang and harmonized, dispelling all doubts.

"Ahem......" General Sima Peng finally picked up the interrupted topic again, and he said: "Today, the general has sent an envoy to the Qin camp to fight tomorrow, and the Qin general will not allow it. However, the soldiers are treacherous, the Qin people are greedy and profit-oriented, and our army must not be slack. This summoning is really a ...... of the formation of the army."

The left, right, center, and rear armies added up to 260,000 troops, and the 260,000 were made up of divisions. These divisions were not formed units, but were mobilized in each prefecture and each province, and there were fifty or sixty generals and generals sitting in the shogunate. Peng Zong was talking to these fifty or sixty people, and when he heard him talk about the deployment of the army, the shogunate, which was still a little noisy, was completely quiet.

“…… The Qin army is strong, the warriors, the chariot array, the kick, the sharp, the strong of our army, the archers, the crossbows, the trebuchet. In the first battle of Jiangyi, the 45 columns of our right army were still crushed by the Qin army. The Chu people are still known to the whole world on the left, so the weakest right army is also known to the whole world. In the first battle of Jiangyi, the Qin people attacked our right army, and in the second battle, the Qin people may still attack our right army. The right army collapsed, the Chinese army must retreat, the Chinese army did not retreat, the Qin people attacked me, and a big defeat was expected. Therefore, in this re-battle, the right army has more soldiers than the left army, and the formation must be sixty columns. ”

"Sixty columns?" Before the others could speak, Sima Zhouwen, the army of Wu Dizhi, stood up. "The right army is 70,000, and there are only more than 1,100 people in 60 columns, and the position of a pawn is less than one step, and the width of the formation is no more than 1,000 steps. This battle was too thick for the soldiers at the end of the battle to fight. ”

"Zhou Sima thinks that how many trains can block the Qin army's broken formation, and how many sharp soldiers?" Peng Zong asked rhetorically.

"Four... Fifty columns is sufficient. "Zhou Wenwen wanted to say forty columns, but last time the right army collapsed in forty-five columns." Our right army has more than 10,000 feudal army divisions, all of which are fully armored. Zhou Wen pointed to the Yiyang Jun, the Six Jun, and the people present. Jun and others, "The rest are Wu Yue's divisions." The Yue people dare to die, which is not comparable to the Huaishang divisions. ”

When it comes to saying that the more people are, the more people it is, Zhou Wen belittled the Huaishang teachers, which immediately caused a lot of criticism. Fortunately, Xiang Yan stretched out his hand to suppress these criticisms, and he said: "The right army must be sixty columns," After saying the right army, Xiang Yan looked at Pan Wuming, the commander of the left army, "The array of the left army is also sixty columns." ”

"General, our army already has Youque, and it is really unnecessary for the left army to line up in sixty columns." Pan Wuming is as his name suggests, and he fights without regard for his life. Cai Shi is not a strong teacher, but with a general like him who can take the lead, his combat power may not be weaker than that of Xiang Shi.

"May I ask the general, how many columns are there in the Chinese army?" Before Xiang Yan could answer, the commander of the Chinese army spoke again, and he sensed something.

can be a general who is familiar with the art of war regardless of the depth, regardless of this question, dozens of generals all look at Xiang Yan.

"Twenty columns of the Chinese army." Xiang Yan's answer made the entire shogunate even quieter.

"Twenty columns?" Tube by some couldn't believe his ears. "Four thousand paces wide?!"

"Exactly." Xiang Yan nodded, indicating that it was accurate.

"There are only twenty columns of the Chinese army, and the Qin people look at it, if the Qin army attacks me with sharp soldiers, won't it be crushed at the first touch?" Guan Yu continued to ask, just as others thought Xiong Jing was crazy, he felt that Xiang Yan was also crazy.

"Exactly." Xiang Yan nodded again, causing an uproar.

Military Sima Peng Zong had to interject to explain: "In this battle, the ranks of the left and right armies of our army must be as thick as sixty paces, and after the Chinese army and the Qin army receive the troops, they should feint defeat and go north, run fifty steps, and then line up to fight with the Qin army." ”

Peng Zong's explanation quieted the generals, but he didn't say anything in detail, and he could only tell his full meaning when the strategists came up with their chips. Among them, the most critical is the gap between the rear end of the left and right army formations and the position of You Que, and the thickness of the 80,000 army formation is 20 columns, which is equal to 4,000 people in each row, and the width of each person during the battle is almost one step, so the width of the formation is almost 4,000 steps. This is the front end of the military formation, the rear end of the military formation, that is, the width of the end of the sixty steps of the left and right armies is not 4,000 steps, only about 3,000 steps, the whole army formation looks actually a trapezoid, large at the top, small at the bottom, empty in the middle, thick on three sides.

There is a gap of about 20 paces between the 50,000 men of the rear army and the 60th column at the end of the left and right armies, which is the position for the feint defeat of the Chinese army, and it is also the position where the Qiwang chariot is stationed. The Chinese army must line up here again, otherwise the line formed by You Que is too thin and may not be able to trap the Qin army in this trap.

"This formation is very dangerous, and if you are not careful, the three armies will be exhausted." The oldest Lu general, Dong Yegu, can also be regarded as a veteran of the battlefield, and after listening to Peng Zong's explanation, he gasped when he looked at the inverted trapezoidal formation on the chipboard.

"What General Dongye said is true, but apart from this, what strategy can defeat the Qin army?" Peng Zong immediately asked rhetorically. His question stopped Higashino Gu and other generals who wanted to object. The last battle of Jiangyi has proved the gap between the two armies of Chu and Qin, so how should they be lined up if they are not so arrayed? The generals opened their mouths to speak, but none of them could speak.

"This battle is the only chance for our army to win." Peng Zong looked around at everyone and once again emphasized that this battle was invincible. Then he moved the board again, and put on a line formation of twenty columns of the left, center, and right armies. "This is the pre-battle formation of our army, each army is twenty columns, before the battle, the left and right armies are separated in Youque, and the speed is after this formation and then forty columns. Remember! This array needs to be obliquely inward, so that the ends of the left and right formations are only 3,000 steps apart. Otherwise, the ends are 4,000 steps apart, and if the Chinese army feints and fails, it will be difficult for You Que to fill the gap. ”

At the time of the battle, the situation of the two armies was constantly changing, and the battle formations were also constantly changing, whether active or passive. But in any case, it is extremely important to hide one's intentions and keep a sufficient number of reserves. The former makes your tactical intentions undetectable to the enemy, while the latter leaves your military formation open for change. Peng Zong's so-called 'before the battle, the left and right armies were separated from Youque ......', which was to ask the generals of the Qin army to think that they were afraid of the Qin army's attack, so they kept a large number of reserves.

"The left and right armies of our army made up forty columns before the battle, how did the Qin people detect?" The commander of the right army, Yang Xu, asked.

"Before the battle, our army's Jing crossbow will suppress the Qin army's nest car, so that it will not know the changes in our army's military formation." Peng Zong replied that the strategists had already taken countermeasures to these tactical details. "The king's trebuchet will also be placed behind the Chinese army, and the Qin army's nest car will be slammed with iron bullets to prevent it from watching."

"The trebuchet is placed behind the Chinese army......" Everyone has seen the power of the trebuchet, and I heard that it was placed behind the Chinese army, which suddenly makes people have a very bad inference: "The Chinese army feints, and the trebuchet is obtained by the Qin army?" ”

"The trebuchet iron bullet can be thrown three hundred and fifty steps, so that the siege of the city is not broken, and the Qin people will take it, so it is placed behind the Chinese army, fifty steps from the front." Peng Zong explained that in his mouth, trebuchets had become bait for the Qin to attack the Chinese army.

"The trebuchet was obtained by the Qin people, what if the Qin people used it to attack our army?" The shock brought by the trebuchet to the generals was too great, and the generals felt afraid when they thought about the 400 catties of iron bullets, so they asked this question.

"This ......" Peng Zong looked at Gong Yin Dao who was sitting down, but Gong Yin Dao was not reluctant, and he didn't know what he was talking about now. It was only when someone repeated the question that he said, "The trebuchet was attributed to the Qin people, and the Qin people didn't know how to use it." When our army retreated, when the machinery was destroyed, the Qin people were useless. ”

Gong Yindao was very weak when he answered, he seemed to be a different person. Peng Zong didn't ask much, and continued to tell the generals about the details of the battle and the countermeasures. After talking about this, the next step is the position of each division, because the number of people in this battle is extremely large, and the width of the entire army formation is nearly 15 miles, so the position of each division must be clearly explained before the battle, so as to avoid omissions.

In addition to the position of the array, the order of the array was also explained. This formation was different from other battles in that it was not out of the barracks, but in the barracks. This involves how to prevent the Qin army from attacking at night, when to make rice, when to fill wells, and when to dismantle stoves...... And so on and so forth. In the next spring, the generals were summoned to discuss the troops, and after dusk, Xiang Yan announced that the generals would return to the camp, and they discussed for more than four hours.

And this is not the whole of the battle, the commanders of the three armies will return to their own military tent to consult with the divisions under their command, and when they are finished, the generals of each division will return to the camp and gather all the rates, brigades, and even soldiers to discuss, if they really want to discuss the troops from top to bottom, I am afraid that they will have to settle after dusk and before dawn.

"What's the matter with Dr. Gongyin?" Everyone else is gone, but Gong Yindao is still not gone.

"General Xiang, what is the reason why you allowed Zhou Wen not to let the king out of the camp?" Gong Yin Dao came to ask for the guilt, and after noon, at the instigation of Zhou Wen, the king was grounded. Such a big rebellion, Gong Yin Dao was angry when he thought about it.

"May I ask Doctor Gongyin, although the king is young, is he virtuous?" Xiang Yan did not answer the rhetorical question.

"The king is the genius of the heavens...... Gong Yindao guessed Xiang Yan's logic at the beginning of his answer, and he jumped away and said: "Even if it is the king's plan, you must not lose the courtesy of the monarch and the minister." ”

"Doctor Gongyin, this victory or defeat is unpredictable, and the king will be sent to Xixian County tonight......" What Zhou Wen and Xiang Yan discussed was not to be grounded, but to take advantage of the night to send Xiong Jing back to Jiangyi, which is thirty or forty miles away, and then send it back to Xixian.

Gong Yin Dao's cold sweat suddenly fell, and he muttered half a voice before he said, "The king must be angry." ”

"If our army is defeated, why fear the wrath of the king? If our army wins, the vassals will be wrath of the king. After Xiang Yan finished speaking, he shook his head, turned out of the curtain and disappeared.