The king did not sleep, and neither did the people in the shogunate. When it was dusk, there was a rumbling in the direction of the Rim River, but there was no last roar. When Zhuang Wudi was about to salute and ask someone to urge, the solid ground suddenly shook, and several cases in the shogunate, Lan Qi, and even the entire military curtain were trembling, and he raised his hand unconsciously 'ah', but he didn't listen to this 'ah' himself. A roar a hundred times more powerful than just now came from the south, and everyone felt a shock in their eardrums and deafness in both ears.

"The power of this heaven and earth!" Zhuang Wudi shouted again, he regretted that he didn't come out of the account, this was the explosion of more than two hundred tons of gunpowder. This regret soon disappeared, and the stone chips that were swept away by the storm immediately fell on the shogunate, within a radius of more than ten miles.

Zhuang Wudi didn't see the spectacular scene, but Xia Yang, who was rescuing his comrades, saw it. As his feet swayed, he stumbled to the ground, just in time to see the flames of the explosion rise into the sky, like a fiery dragon bursting out of the ground, and the smoke and dust that it brought out obscured the moon and then the stars. He was stunned for a long time, only to be awakened by the splash of rubble.

When the "Great King ......" Gongchuankou exploded, Zhao Zheng was changing his clothes, shaking, and Zhao Gao, who heard the earth-shattering roar, hurriedly hugged him, he was afraid that this was the witchcraft of the Jing people.

Zhao Zheng couldn't see his face, but his body kept trembling. After the roar subsided, he pushed Zhao Gao away before he said, "This witch weapon is also." ”

"Jingren's witchcraft is not as good as my ......," Zhao Gao comforted, and motioned to the maid to continue to help the king change his clothes.

"Get dressed." Zhao Zheng didn't want to sleep, he wanted to go out and have a look to see what Jing Ren was doing. When he came out of the tent, the smoke and dust from the explosion gradually dissipated, and only the frightened birds flew by. The Qinling Mountains are no longer safe in the hearts of these birds, and all the birds and beasts within a radius of hundreds of miles have avoided them.

"The king, the Jing people...... Hit the mouth of the rim river also. A geographer whispered a few words in Zhao Yong's ear, and Zhao Yong immediately reported to Zhao Zheng.

"Hit the mouth of the rim river?" Zhao Zheng was puzzled. There are too many mountains and rivers in the Qinling Mountains.

"Yes." Zhao Yong said. "The mouth of the rim river is no more than a foot wide, and it can only be carried out of the river along the rim water. The Jing people came over the mountains, and there was no boat, so they had to break through the mouth of the Rim River to transport grain and straw. ”

I see. After hearing this, Zhao Zheng nodded again and again, and he asked again: "With such a heavy blow, is the mouth of Gongchuan broken?" ”

"Minister, I don't know. However, God bless Daqin, and the Jing people will not succeed. ”

The roar just now was already a force that destroyed the world, and whether it was Zhao Yong or geography, he didn't know what happened to the rim Chuankou, which was not wide. But Guanzhong is the land of the Qin people, and the gods are sacrificed by the Qin people, and it is impossible for the gods not to bless the Qin people and favor the Chu people.

The Qin people had little clan concept, and they became less and less convinced of ghosts and gods—unless there was a real need. But Zhao Yong, who is the patriarch of the Zhao clan, has always been respectful to the gods of Guanzhong, sacrificing jade silk, and daring to add it. His words really worked, and the last bend after the smoke and dust dissipated, the hopeful Gong Zhiji, Feng Renjiao, Wukong and others were disappointed to see that although most of the mountain rocks had been blown up and blown away, there was still a thick stone wall standing at the northernmost end of the mountain rock.

There is no depression at the foot of this section of the rock wall, and there is no way to load gunpowder under the cliff without the depression. The blast wave of the explosion tore away a large area of rock, but the rocks on the outside looked unscathed, and the place where the valley came out was no longer wide, nor was it wide.

"Dig out a hole and blow it up again?" Feng Ren asked with a wry smile.

"Not yet." The soldiers had lined up into the mountain stream to clear the rubble.

"So what?" The things that were built were sealed and people knew, and the things that were demolished were sealed and people didn't know.

"Or it can be bombarded." Wukong ran over and over, and most of the hundreds of meters of mountain rock were cut off, leaving only a few meters of Kawaguchi still not falling. "As long as you can blast away, the carriage and horses can get by."

"Heavy artillery?" Heavy artillery is siege artillery, and the Chu army has a battalion of siege artillery battalions. Previously, these artillery pieces were stranded in Shangluo, but after the Danshui was dredged, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people followed the Chu army to renovate this new road, and the road gradually became able to pass carriages and artillery carriages.

"Yes. Two companies of heavy artillery bombarded the stone wall, and the wall collapsed. "Wukong is confident that he will be able to shatter the rock wall in a matter of hours.

"Hurry up." It will take several hours to dig holes in the rock wall, and it will take several hours for the concrete to solidify. If the bombardment for half an hour has no effect, it is not too late to dig a hole.

Gong Yi agreed without hesitation, and the other thing he had to do was to report to the king quickly. The artillery baggage is related to the battle of the Chu army on the second day, and the Gongchuan Road cannot be opened around dusk, which is a major event.

The absence of artillery is of course a big deal, because of the absence of artillery, the Chu army could not drive away the Qin people's war boats on the shovel water, and could not assume a pontoon bridge on the shovel water, which was equivalent to being trapped on the Bailu Plateau. As soon as the morning dawns, 400,000 Qin troops will be killed. When the 32-pound heavy cannon of the Rim Kawaguchi rang out one after another, the generals of the various divisions and brigades had already gathered in the shogunate.

"The minister thought that our army had retreated to the south of the mountain." Ole is the most anxious, leaving Qinling is no longer out of the plan, let alone attacking Xianyang. "Don't forget Li Xin, the 400,000 Qin army will enter Nanyang."

"How can our army return in vain!" Chengtong shouted. In the afternoon, when pursuing Zhao Zheng, the Xishi division was shot by the Qin army's war boats, and one or two hundred people were killed and wounded. "The minister asks the king to fight with the Qin people tomorrow, and the rest of the master will be able to defeat the Qin people in order to kill the king of Qin."

"The Qin people already have a crossbow!" Zhuang is not authentic. "And our artillery is still in the mountain stream. If I fight, the Qin people will hit me with a crossbow......"

"If the Qin people hit me with a crossbow, our army can rush with a spear, and when the Qin people receive the troops, why should the crossbow be afraid?" The general of the expectation refuted.

"The Qin people have a geometrical crossbow, and our army doesn't know it. If the Qin people have hundreds of crossbows, what will our army do? Zhuang Wudi asked again. He turned to look at Xiong Jing and said, "If the crossbow shoots at the king, what if?" ”

"The arrows that kill the unscrupulous have not yet been made." Xiong Jing disdainful. He looked down on the Shaofu of the Qin State, and he also looked down on the craftsmen of the Qin State. The generals laughed when they heard this, and Zuo Shi behind him hurriedly wrote down this sentence. He didn't hide his thoughts, and said bluntly: "Our army attacked Qin, but it took advantage of the fact that Meng Tian's army had not arrived, and now that Meng Tian's army has arrived, our army should return to ......."

"King!" Xiong Jing expressed his chest directly, and the shogunate lieutenant general was shocked when he heard this.

"How can the king retreat lightly." Pan Wuming stood up, his shoulders were big and his waist was round, his body was bulging, his beard was like weeds, and he often made people shudder when he was angry. "Xianyang is a hundred miles away, and the King of Qin is ten miles away, as long as the minister can get close to him a hundred steps, he will definitely be killed."

"As long as the minister is two hundred steps closer, he can shoot him!" In the outermost position of the big tent, some people disagreed with Pan Wuming's opinion.

"Rude!" Pan Wuming slapped behind him, he knew who was talking, although he was screaming, but there was no anger. "For the sake of the mountain, the success is falling short, the king retreats today, and he will regret it in the future."

"If our army does not retreat today, the king will regret it today, so why should he do it." Zeng Jue, the general of Xiyang, said.

"What about regretting it today?" Pan Wuming glared at Zeng Jue angrily, "The Qin people killed me once, and I should be killed by ten pawns." And I, the elite soldiers of the Chu army, killing the Qin people is like killing a dog's ear! ”

"How can a man be compared to a dog!" Xiong Jing reprimanded. "If you don't make a decision, artillery and baggage can't go out of Sichuan, you can only retreat."

"King!!" Pan was in a hurry, and Chengtong and the others were also in a hurry, but at this time, the strategists in the shogunate had already taken the written order and began to distribute, which was an order on how to retreat. Retreat requires more skill and discipline than offense.

"Surrender!" Pan shouted without a life.

"I don't obey either." The concubine also said.

"The minister doesn't want to." Chengtong also said. The three of them took the lead, and more generals stood up.

Seeing this, Dou Yu Pheasant said: "Our army is here, how can we retreat without a fight?" The generals are not convinced, and the soldiers are not convinced. Are my Chu people afraid of the Qin people? I, the Chu people, defeated the Qin people! If our army retreats, its morale will inevitably plummet, and how can we encircle and annihilate Li Xin's 400,000 people? Our army retreats without a fight, what will happen to the Zhao people who are in urgent need of reinforcements? And what will happen to the Qi and Wei people? King, this battle in the world is also! ”

Dou Yu Pheasant mentioned Zhao Ren and made Xiong Jing stunned, but he was only stunned, he insisted: "This is a military order, and it is also a king's order!" Do you wait? ”

The temperature in the shogunate rose sharply, and Xiong Jing stared at the unconvinced generals, who bowed their heads before his gaze swept over. Xiong Jing is young, but his power is getting heavier day by day, and if anyone disobeys the king's orders, the Chu people will spit on him.

It's just that the opportunity is too precious right now. The Chu army withdrew more than 80 years ago, but I didn't expect the Chu army to withdraw more than 80 years later. If Xianyang is not pulled out and the King of Qin is not killed, it will not take next year, and the more than 400,000 Qin troops will follow the Wuguan Road to Nanyang this year. And if Li Xin is more cautious, the 400,000 army does not enter Fangcheng, or if he enters Fangcheng, he will stop at a superficial level, so as to wait for the Guanzhong army to go south, then Case B will also fail, and the last thing that can be implemented will be Case C.

The so-called C case is to rely on the two giant cities of Xiang and Fan, which are newly stationed, to hold the Han River. This is also one of the principles of the Great Sima Mansion's war against Qin: if you can't use strategic maneuver to create a favorable situation of being outnumbered by the crowd, then choose the danger and defend it, and choose the city to fight.

The two cities of Xiang and Fan are the same as the two cities of Xiang and Fan after Qin, built across the Han River, and the cities face each other. Among them, Fancheng City is fifty miles in circumference, six feet high and six feet (14.85m); The circumference of Xiangcheng City is eighty miles, and it is four feet eight feet high (9.45m).

The Han River flows to Xiangyang and meets the White Water \ Tang Water. Originally, the Han River to the south turned to the east, and after twenty or thirty miles to the east, it turned to the south and then to the west, so that it surrounded a peninsula with a length of fifteen or six miles. The east side of the peninsula is the plain, the west side is the mountain, and the historical Xiangyang City is built on the north side of the middle of the peninsula at the foot of the mountain, and the city circumference is less than 20 miles. The city of Xiangyang, which is now being built, not only encompasses the eastern part of the peninsula, but also encloses the western part of the peninsula along the mountain.

The two giant cities must be able to stop the Qin army in northern Han, especially Xiangcheng, and they cannot be conquered at all. It's just that the battle of Yancheng has still made the Chu people uneasy in the past fifty years. Dou Yu Pheasant and the others were never willing to sit back and wait for the Qin people to attack, but to attack the Qin people first and prevent it from happening.