Chapter Ninety-One

If there is a regret pill, Zhao Zheng must buy one.

The Qin army was defeated, and the cavalry of the Chu army attacked from time to time, and in the end, even the guards were defeated, and there were only more than a thousand guards left by his side. Yang Duanhe, the general of the left army, sent someone to invite him to Fenghao, and Meng Tian, the general of the right army, sent someone to ask him to cross the Bashui east. He wanted to go east, but the detective said that the pontoon bridge in the east had been occupied by the Jing people, and Zhang Han was defeated again, and the 150,000 Qin army was exhausted.

Shocked overnight, Zhao Zheng's face in the carriage became more and more heavy, and Zhao Gao lowered his head when he saw him like this.

"The boatmaster is still chasing me?" Zhao Zheng asked again, his hand clenching his sword tightly.

"Yes, yes." Zhao Gao poked his head out and asked, and then answered.

"The flag has been lowered?" Zhao Zheng asked again.

The Son of Heaven is constant, and the sun and the moon are painted. After the destruction of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the relocation of Jiuding, the banner of the King of Qin was the permanent flag painted with the sun and the moon, and the monarchs of the Kwantung countries could only hang the flag. The former honor turned into a sign of attracting the enemy, and when he heard that the boat master was chasing, Zhao Zheng immediately ordered the Chang flag to be lowered.

"Yes, yes." Zhao Gao replied again, and he persuaded: "Don't worry, the five thousand guards of the Shaofu will be able to protect the king." Rongyang's 30,000 army has been set up yesterday, and it will come to the rescue in the starry night, and it may be able to ...... today."

"Rongyang, Huan Qi is the marquis of the enemy country, how can his words be done." When it came to Huan Qi Zhao Zheng was furious, he suddenly flipped the short table in front of him, and several books and slips flew sideways and fell on the entire carriage. "If the widow returns to Xianyang, he will punish his seven clans."

"Tell the king, Jing Renzhou went to the big river, but he is gone." Zhang Han's voice came from outside the car. At this time, the convoy was no longer heading north along the garden, but turning eastward towards Rongyang.

"Big River?" Zhao Zheng was puzzled, "Why did Xiang Yan go to Dahe?" ”

The big river is the Yellow River, and Shaanxi is not called the loess slope in this era, so the river is not yellow. In early autumn, the field was still wide, and Xiang Yan wanted Xiong Jing to stay in the field, but he just wanted to go to the river to see. As soon as he entered the Yellow River, he was a little stunned, because the river water is not yellow, not only is it not yellow, but the surface of the river is also twice that of the chasm, and it is several miles wide.

"This is the Great River?" After sailing into the Yellow River, the winged warboat turned to the east, while the large-winged warboat continued to speed and hurried towards Aocang, which was not far away. At dawn, there was a group of Qin troops sailing to Rongyang in the west of Putian Ze, many people thought that this was the reinforcement of the Qin army to reinforce Rongyang, but no one thought that this group of Qin troops was actually the guards of Qin Wei and Zhao Zheng.

"Yes, yes." Right Shi doesn't know why the king asked like this, the river is more than a thousand steps wide, and there is no water so wide except for the river.

"No, I always thought it was ...... The river is yellow. Xiong Jing smiled.

"Indeed, when the rain rains, the river is yellow." I don't understand why the king is curious about the color of the river.

"Go to Aocang." Xiong Jing decided not to look at the river, he was now going to Aocang.

"The king, the general has an order, and he doesn't want the king to go to Aocang." The general of the boat division, the red one, is also on the winged warship. "The queen asked the king to return to Yingdu as soon as possible."

The boat division attacked the girder, and the flying station was set up on the boat, and the information between it and Yingdu has always been communicated. Concubine Zhao misses her son, and as soon as she hears that the war is coming, she wants her son to return to Yingdu as soon as possible.

Xiong Jing saw that the red man was pressing himself after taking his mother, and said unhappily: "Is General Red going to imprison him?" ”

"I don't dare." The red man hurriedly saluted. "The Aocang garrison is less than 10,000, and there is no equipment, our Chu army is like a bamboo, and it goes down with a drum. The king went to war, but it was useless. ”

"Hmph." Xiong Jing was indeed a little disliked, and he knew why Xiang Yan and the others were like this. "If you don't pass on the king's order, go to Aocang quickly."

"The king," the winged warboat was full of sanitation, and the red man could not order, so he could only say: "Please don't go ashore, let alone ...... king."

"No, no horses." Xiong Jing said angrily, it was a whim to rush towards the Qin army that day, not his original intention. Now that he is not convinced, his injury has not healed, and it is impossible for him to charge alone.

Hongmu was slightly relieved when he heard him say this, but he still secretly asked Chang Jiang to tell the sanitation paddling to be slower. So much so that when the winged warship arrived in Aocang, all the people on the mountain cheered.

"Took Aocang? Took Aocang? Hearing the cheers of the soldiers, Xiong Jing asked anxiously.

Aocang is surrounded by the south bank of the Yellow River, and corn can be transferred to the gap. According to the battle plan, part of the large wing was transmitted directly from the mouth of the chasm to the grain canal connecting the chasm in Aocang, and the other part turned into the Yellow River and landed from the north of Aocang. Ao Cang did not have many defenders, and the 30,000 defenders of Rongyang were ordered to be transferred to Daliang, and thousands of Qin troops were defeated and scattered. It's just that because of the obstruction of Ao Mountain, the bears on the war boat can't see anything.

"Tell the king, our army has captured Aocang!" The red flag was punched out, and once it went, it got a reply from the top of the mountain.

"No, I want to go and see it!" Xiong Jing was a little impatient, and quickly ordered the war boat to dock.

"Please ...... the king" Hongji was about to confess his caution, and Xiong Jing had already run down the wooden ladder and climbed the riverbank. Fortunately, he didn't have a horse and couldn't run fast this time, and more than 200 sanitation guards hurried up with three phoenix flags to catch up and protect him.

Aocang is in the west of Ao Mountain, at the gap of the remaining veins of Ao Mountain (now in the area of Magou Village, Gaocun Township, Rongyang). From here, you can pass through Aoshan and export corn to Aocang in the south of Shannan. In the north, as long as the gap in the remaining veins of Aoshan can be blocked, the enemy can be blocked, and in the south, although the remaining veins of Aoshan are lacking, the terrain is still higher than that in the south. In addition, there is a grain transportation canal south of Aocang, from which the chasm can be crossed.

Before Xiong Jing landed on the shore, he saw the grain boats and helpless boatmen parked by the Yellow River, and when he landed on the shore, he saw rows of double-wheeled carts, which were full of sacks, and because of the panic, there was a section of the road full of scattered corn. But what really opened his eyes was the southern slope of Yumai, looking south, halfway up the hill was full of dense pottery. To the east of the pottery, there are the granaries that stand like houses, these granaries spread all over the south of Ao Mountain, orderly like the Yingdu market, and it is almost impossible to see the end at a glance.

"Finally there is food." Looking at those granaries, Xiong Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

"My lord, I'm waiting for food! I'll wait for the food......" Seeing Xiong Jing standing at the gap, some excited soldiers rushed over with Tao Yi in their arms. The sanitation hurriedly stopped them, but Xiong Jing walked through the sanitation and walked towards them who were extremely excited.

"King, this is the new grain for the Qin people." Since the commander was an officer, he naturally knew that the pottery was used to store new grain.

Crops have post-ripening behavior after harvesting, which needs to be done through respiration. Like a small Hakka walled house, there are pores on the side of the pottery, which can regulate the temperature and humidity inside. After it is finished, the new grain will be poured into the square barn. Fangcang is those houses east of Taoyi, the long-term storage of the square warehouse in the Chu State is generally 10,000 stones, or 20,000 stones, and the largest square warehouse in the Qin State has 100,000 stones.

"How much food is stored here?" Xiong Jing looked at the granary on the hillside again, wondering how much corn there was.

"I don't know." The pawn said. The granaries are all over the south of Ao Mountain, except for the Qin people, no one can say how much grain there is in Ao Cang at one time, and the only word that can accurately describe it can only be Su Ru Canghai.

"Great, great king bravery!" Xiong Jing hurried forward after asking, and when he left, the pawn chief couldn't help but shout, it seems that the trick played by Peng Zong has spread to the soldiers.

"How much grain does Aocang have?" Ao Cang had a husband and officials, and the Chu army that attacked from the grain canal occupied the Zhisu Officials' Mansion within the parapet wall next to the canal. None of the officials inside fled, as if waiting for Xiang Yan's reception.

"General, there are 49.76 million stones of millet in Aocang, 7.39 million stones of soy, 6.17 million stones of wheat, and 2 million stones of millet. There are also 4.3 million stones of sauce, 830,000 stones of liquor, 300,000 stones of wine, and more than 5 million bunches of herbs...... "The Qin officials all knelt on the ground and bowed their bodies. The number they reported was more than the figure given by Zhibisi, but thinking that the new millet had just been harvested, and the three million households in the Qin State produced 500 or 600 million stones of millet a year, the grain here was just a year's accumulation of the Qin State.

Three years of ploughing and more than one year's food, nine years of livestock for three years, eighteen years and six years, twenty-seven years and nine years of storage. Ploughing and war is the national policy of the Qin State, and it is not known whether the Qin State has a nine-year reserve, but there must be a three-year animal. Thinking that there were nine Ao Cangs in the Qin State, the generals who were originally excited were somewhat disheartened.

"I'm going to take all the grain here." Xiang Yan's eyes were a little red, he didn't care how much grain there was in the Qin State, he only knew that the grain here was enough for the Chu State to eat for a whole year. "As for you and others, those who are willing can go to the country of Chu with those who are about to go to the country of Chu, and those who are unwilling, after transporting the grain, they will go to which country they want."

As soon as Xiang Yan said that he wanted to transport the grain here, the Qin officials trembled all over, and the leader cried: "The general must not transport grain, must not transport grain!" Our family is all in the Qin State, and if we transport grain, we will all die. ”

Sobbing. Qin Guocang has a system of sole responsibility (separate compensation) and shared taste (compensation for all officials together), so these Qin officials did not dare to run, let alone set fire to the warehouse. When the state of Chu attacked, they thought that they were just eating and taking, and soon the Qin army would counterattack Ao Cang and drive them away. Now that the Chu army has transported all the grain and straw, where can they afford to taste so much grain?

"Keep an eye on them. From this moment on, every square warehouse must be guarded. Xiang Yan snorted and threw his sleeves away.

According to the plan of the Operations Division, the Chu army that had just captured Aocang performed its own duties. The most important thing was to defend to prevent the Qin army from counterattacking, and at the beginning of the landing, there were divisions and brigades to the south, west, and east to seize important places. Aoshan is twenty or thirty miles long from east to west, and although there is a grain transportation canal as a pool, the divisions still hammer down the iron piles in the south of the grain transportation canal and pull up the barbed wire fence that is more than one zhang high and overlapping on top of each other.

Outside of defense is transport. The builders are installing cranes at the wharf of the grain canal, while the people of the Concrete Pharf are pouring new concrete wharves for more boats to dock. The garden Tianze was not idle, and Feng Renjiao personally commanded the craftsmen to dig deep foundations in the high places of Zenai. Although it was only a dry-slab building, and the foundation was nothing more than pillars, he had to pour the wharf and the first floor in five days to free up the corn that had been transferred.